Political blogs and Lessons

My friend Anne Davis sends me a list of political blogs as we had chance to discuss yesterday.  She and Tim Merrit have a lot of wonderful ideas as to how blogs can change the edu world -- more to come from that discussion I am sure.  Of course, it seemed that everything we discussed kept coming back to one word - control.  Blogs don't support a "control" culture.  I like that. 

Oh yeah, the list:

Tom Watson

WatchBlog

Gary Hart

Richard Allan

James Mills

Senator Robert Byrd

 

Articles:  Why Politicians Need Weblogs  and Get Your Senator Blogging

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A campaign as a conversation

A novel concept indeed.  Campaigns that focus on the many-to-one blast of commercials known as modern media strategies have been failing of late.  It would be interesting to see a conversation, a rumble at the grassroots level so-to-speak, overtake what will become a $200 million commercial for Bush.

Dean's Secret Weapons. I'm spending several days at the Vermont headquarters of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, studying a breakthrough in American politics.... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

But, speaking of conversations, the thoughts of Doc Searls expounding upon the virtues of blogging democracy combined with the contributions of David Weinberger creates a truly intriguing story line to the Dean campaign blog.  This is a conversation well worth following and chronicling.

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