Who benefits from HuffPo?
BLOGOSPHERE
Bloggers hit HuffPo with labor lawsuit - A class action lawsuit alleges that as many as 9,000 unpaid bloggers for the Huffington Post were unjustly denied compensation. (By DANIEL MASSEY, Crain's New York)
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
CAMPAIGN CONTINUES
Obama calls on his Internet campaign army to march again (Bradenton Herald) His four-page questionnaire also asks respondents to name their top-priority issues out of 27 listed. The options included environment and global warming, civil rights and voting rights, war in Iraq, jobs and trade, or divisive politics and partisanship.
NOTE:
POSTMODERN ECONOMY
Kristol: Admit we don't know what will fix fiscal dilemma (William Kristol, The Saratogian) I've worked in government. It's hard to do much thinking there at all, let alone thinking anew. But Obama and his team will have to think anew, and those on the outside who wish to help will have to think anew too, if we're to have a chance of rising to this daunting occasion.
ELECTION REFORM
Nick Coleman: Elections with less acrimony? That's the true beauty of IRV (Minneapolis Star Tribune) NOTE: We might wish that Mr. Coleman was talking about the value of Instant Runoff Voting being one of more democracy. It's PARTISANSHIP we could do with less of. -NH
THE BLOGOSPHERE
Judging Obama By The Company He Keeps (National Journal/Blogometer) HINT: It's the left bloggers who are upset by Obama's inclusion of Clinton administation advisors, and it's the right-roots who are worried about a new center-left country...
Obama calls on his Internet campaign army to march again (Bradenton Herald) His four-page questionnaire also asks respondents to name their top-priority issues out of 27 listed. The options included environment and global warming, civil rights and voting rights, war in Iraq, jobs and trade, or divisive politics and partisanship.
NOTE:
- "Obama's building a political machine," said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington research group. "These people have just opened up a new world for politics," added Hess, the author of "What Do We Do Now?: A Workbook for the President-Elect." Pre-Internet presidents, he said, lacked the ability to communicate in real time with masses of their volunteers. In addition, the social networks such as MySpace and Facebook that link Obama's army together didn't exist.
POSTMODERN ECONOMY
Kristol: Admit we don't know what will fix fiscal dilemma (William Kristol, The Saratogian) I've worked in government. It's hard to do much thinking there at all, let alone thinking anew. But Obama and his team will have to think anew, and those on the outside who wish to help will have to think anew too, if we're to have a chance of rising to this daunting occasion.
ELECTION REFORM
Nick Coleman: Elections with less acrimony? That's the true beauty of IRV (Minneapolis Star Tribune) NOTE: We might wish that Mr. Coleman was talking about the value of Instant Runoff Voting being one of more democracy. It's PARTISANSHIP we could do with less of. -NH
THE BLOGOSPHERE
Judging Obama By The Company He Keeps (National Journal/Blogometer) HINT: It's the left bloggers who are upset by Obama's inclusion of Clinton administation advisors, and it's the right-roots who are worried about a new center-left country...
Sunday, October 05, 2008
PTW 2008 Blogging Blogging the World
I blogged Blogging the World only for a minute, but there's much more coming up! Thanks to Justin Gardner, Robert Koulish, Jackie Salit, Lanya Shapiro, Daisy Lopez, Carrie Sackett -- and a cast of thousands!
It will take me several days to post even a fraction of the footage from this weekend's wonderful performance festival. I hope you'll check back! -NH
Blogging the World: An Online Stage for Activists a Smash Hit!
For those of you waiting with bated breath to find out how today's Blogging the World session for Performing the World --- it was a huge success -- and very hip!
More later -- I'm rushing out to catch the closing plenary in Brooklyn -- be back soon!
Friday, October 03, 2008
PTW 2008 Blogging the World from New York City, Friday Oct 3
There's a Picasa photo album at the top of The Hankster of snap-shots of a FEW of today's Performing the World conference/performance festival. There are so many wonderfully creative programs represented that engage social workers, youth, performance and progress in a world sorely in need of a new performance. Some of the sessions pictured here include:
Stay tuned!!! We're blogging Performing the World. And we're blogging the world.....
Hey! Did you know you're being blogged!?
- Irish National Youth Theatre - A Methodological Approach (Orlaith McBride)
- A Work in Progress: The Tools-and-Results of a Youth Group in Mexico and Their Process in Spite of Progress (Miguel Cortes, Diana Itzel Gonzalez and others; org headed by Teresa Almada Mireles) presented by the Centro de Asesoria y Promocion Juvenil A.C. (aka CASA)
- The Performance of Studying Performance: Building Bridges Between the Academy and Performance Communities (Richard Schechner, Jon Oram, Judith Marcuse, Paul Murray)
- Improvising Yesterday to Clarify Today and Illuminate Tomorrow: Performance for Conflict Resolution and Political Stability in Nigeria (Babafemi Babatope -- aka "Bicycle")
- (Outside) What's Your Problem? (Chris Dupuis) installation in progress!
- Performing Your Creative Self at Work (Carrie Sackett, Jennifer Ostrega)
- Community; Creativity; Change! Ethiopia's One Love HIV/AIDS Awareness Theater [aka Awassa Childrens Project] (John McKay, David Schein, Anteneh Tamrat, Tesfaye Tekele)
- Citizens as Actors in Urban Renewal Projects: Could Performance Make a Differenct? (Corinne Marseille, Karen Hemink)
- The (Re) Making Project: An Experiment in Democratizing the Creation of Theatre (Charles Mee with Marcia Ferguson, Jay O'Berski, James F. Schlatter, Jennifer Schlueter, Patrick Torres)
Stay tuned!!! We're blogging Performing the World. And we're blogging the world.....
Hey! Did you know you're being blogged!?
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Blogging the World: An Online Stage for Activists (Or Performatory Blogging for Everyone)
"Blogging the World" is a panel discussion by bloggers and alternative media journalists and activists at the upcoming Performing The World international conference to be held in New York City October 2-5.
"Blogging the World" will address the themes of community-building, performance and development, as well as issues of technology, democracy, and activism. We will also be a performance within a performance--a “happening within a happening”, broadcast throughout the stratosblog.
Begun in the mid-1990s, blogs have been so successful as outlets for alternative news and opinions of ordinary voices and alternative journalists that Technorati now tracks more than 112 million blogs. Mainstream media has taken up blogging – every online newspaper has one.
The influence of the “netroots” in political campaigns over the past several years has been notable. From Howard Dean to Ned Lamont to the Ron Paul Revolution and the Barack Obama “phenomenon”, the advance of social-networking tools and online campaigning are helping to transform politics.
Blogging is the performance of ordinary people as media personalities, pundits commentators and newsmakers—actors in the political arena, insurgents speaking out and impacting our political culture.
“Blogging The World” will involve an introductory session where bloggers and new media/ alternative media journalists and activists come together to share experiences and discuss questions such as: Do you as a blogger or new/alternative media journalist consider yourself part of a community? What is community? Is the internet a form of radical democracy in action, or simply technology being used by anyone who has a computer? How are you using your blog to build connections and relationships that strengthen grassroots democratic action?
“Blogging the World“ will also fan out to cover the various workshops, panels, speeches and performances by live-blogging, video-taping and broadcasting Performing The World. Bloggers will attend other sessions and report on them, interview presenters, and give our audiences a sense of this important grassroots conference.
For more information about the conference, please go to PerformingTheWorld.org
About Blogging the World's host: Nancy Hanks is a long-time activist in independent politics and the author of The Hankster, a blog/news source for independent voters. The Hankster was started in April 2006, during the midterm elections when independent voters led a successful anti-war electoral revolution. Nancy is a grant-writer for an international homeless youth program and volunteers as a fundraiser for the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (independentvoting.org). She is on the research staff of the Neo-Independent magazine. Nancy has been a guest commentator on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Indie Talk Blog Bunker with Joe Salzone.
"Blogging the World" will address the themes of community-building, performance and development, as well as issues of technology, democracy, and activism. We will also be a performance within a performance--a “happening within a happening”, broadcast throughout the stratosblog.
Begun in the mid-1990s, blogs have been so successful as outlets for alternative news and opinions of ordinary voices and alternative journalists that Technorati now tracks more than 112 million blogs. Mainstream media has taken up blogging – every online newspaper has one.
The influence of the “netroots” in political campaigns over the past several years has been notable. From Howard Dean to Ned Lamont to the Ron Paul Revolution and the Barack Obama “phenomenon”, the advance of social-networking tools and online campaigning are helping to transform politics.
Blogging is the performance of ordinary people as media personalities, pundits commentators and newsmakers—actors in the political arena, insurgents speaking out and impacting our political culture.
“Blogging The World” will involve an introductory session where bloggers and new media/ alternative media journalists and activists come together to share experiences and discuss questions such as: Do you as a blogger or new/alternative media journalist consider yourself part of a community? What is community? Is the internet a form of radical democracy in action, or simply technology being used by anyone who has a computer? How are you using your blog to build connections and relationships that strengthen grassroots democratic action?
“Blogging the World“ will also fan out to cover the various workshops, panels, speeches and performances by live-blogging, video-taping and broadcasting Performing The World. Bloggers will attend other sessions and report on them, interview presenters, and give our audiences a sense of this important grassroots conference.
For more information about the conference, please go to PerformingTheWorld.org
About Blogging the World's host: Nancy Hanks is a long-time activist in independent politics and the author of The Hankster, a blog/news source for independent voters. The Hankster was started in April 2006, during the midterm elections when independent voters led a successful anti-war electoral revolution. Nancy is a grant-writer for an international homeless youth program and volunteers as a fundraiser for the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (independentvoting.org). She is on the research staff of the Neo-Independent magazine. Nancy has been a guest commentator on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Indie Talk Blog Bunker with Joe Salzone.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Performing the World/ Blogging the World
I hope you'll join me this year at Performing the World 2008 [aka PTW].
PTW has in the past been attended by educators, psychologists, social workers and other community-based practioners who are attempting to deal with social issues in their communities ranging from genocidal war (Bosnia) to sexual assault (Prince George, British Columbia) to educating and helping refugee children assimilate (Decatur, GA) to community health issues (South Africa).... Most of these programs and helping professionals use a variety of performance-based approaches to human development.
Most attendees, I would daresay, consider themselves changers of society, if not changers of the world. They are political activists in the larger (and best) sense of the word.
This year the conference organizers decided to reach out more broadly and I was invited to submit a proposal for a session on blogging.
My session is a panel discussion called "Blogging the World" and is designed to engage the issues of grassroots activism, influencing the political process from the bottom up, and ways the internet/ blogging/ etc. has (and has not) democratized our political process. (I have one or two more slots on the panel, so if you're interested, please email me and I'll get you the details.)
And let's face it: 2008 a big fat election year, and I'm also interested in promoting and discussing independent politics.
PTW promises to be very interesting this year. Over 200 proposals have been submitted from every corner of the world. Here are a few:
Human Flag of Peace: Meditation for Planetary Peace - CHILE
This is a performance happening that will take place outdoors in a public space involving scores of PTW attendees. Developed by the Green Planet Collective in Valparaiso, Chile, the “Human Flag of Peace” is a performance-meditation involving in three circles created by human bodies, surrounding by another big circle created by human bodies. It is the international symbol of peace agreed on in 1935 by all the nations in Americas. The three circles in the middle represent art, science and spirituality and the big circle represents the culture of peace.
Bukom Dance Ensemble - GHANA
The Bukom Dance Ensemble is a drumming and performing group. It was established in 1989 to raise awareness on the link between culture and development and travels to communities within the country to educate the public.
Youth Theatre in Ireland – A Model of Practice - IRELAND
Orlaith McBride, the Director of the National Association for Youth Development in Ireland, will discuss the innovative approaches to working with young people through theatre developed by the Irish National Youth Theatre. The session will present the specific methodologies that have been developed over thirty years of practice from its unique method of auditioning to the building of an ensemble company through the rehearsal process to an exploration of the impact of the experience on the young people’s personal, social and aesthetic development as well as the impact of the National Youth Theatre on theatre practice in Ireland. The session will chart the development of the Youth Theatre movement in Ireland in the late 1970’s and the particular place the fifty youth theatres in Ireland occupy in 2008 in the spectrum of theatre in Ireland.
‘Inside A Box”: Community Theater in Times of Community Crisis - ISRAEL
This study focuses on the impact of participation in a community theater on women living in an Israeli city near the Lebanese border during a time of security crisis in Israel. Amnon and Esther Boehm will discuss how the participants’ coping resources were developed in the process of creating community theatre.
Mother{r}ight - MACEDONIA
Mother {r}ight works with Roma (Gypsy) mothers who beg with their children on the streets and intersections of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. The session will look at different aspects of this project and will include performative aspects of their work through video questions recorded by each Roma mother involved in the project.
Improvising Yesterday to Clarify Today and Illuminate Tomorrow; Performance for Conflict Resolution and Political Stability in Nigeria - NIGERIA
The session will include a discussion of the use of performance in Nigeria as a means of conflict resolution and a performance of a comic solo skit titled “Bicycle.” “Bicycle” is a 10-minute comic solo skit dramatizing the anguish of a 45-year-old man who has to work as a house boy to make ends meet. The skit is a reflection of the extent to which poverty dehumanizes.
This is a performance happening that will take place outdoors in a public space involving scores of PTW attendees. Developed by the Green Planet Collective in Valparaiso, Chile, the “Human Flag of Peace” is a performance-meditation involving in three circles created by human bodies, surrounding by another big circle created by human bodies. It is the international symbol of peace agreed on in 1935 by all the nations in Americas. The three circles in the middle represent art, science and spirituality and the big circle represents the culture of peace.
Bukom Dance Ensemble - GHANA
The Bukom Dance Ensemble is a drumming and performing group. It was established in 1989 to raise awareness on the link between culture and development and travels to communities within the country to educate the public.
Youth Theatre in Ireland – A Model of Practice - IRELAND
Orlaith McBride, the Director of the National Association for Youth Development in Ireland, will discuss the innovative approaches to working with young people through theatre developed by the Irish National Youth Theatre. The session will present the specific methodologies that have been developed over thirty years of practice from its unique method of auditioning to the building of an ensemble company through the rehearsal process to an exploration of the impact of the experience on the young people’s personal, social and aesthetic development as well as the impact of the National Youth Theatre on theatre practice in Ireland. The session will chart the development of the Youth Theatre movement in Ireland in the late 1970’s and the particular place the fifty youth theatres in Ireland occupy in 2008 in the spectrum of theatre in Ireland.
‘Inside A Box”: Community Theater in Times of Community Crisis - ISRAEL
This study focuses on the impact of participation in a community theater on women living in an Israeli city near the Lebanese border during a time of security crisis in Israel. Amnon and Esther Boehm will discuss how the participants’ coping resources were developed in the process of creating community theatre.
Mother{r}ight - MACEDONIA
Mother {r}ight works with Roma (Gypsy) mothers who beg with their children on the streets and intersections of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. The session will look at different aspects of this project and will include performative aspects of their work through video questions recorded by each Roma mother involved in the project.
Improvising Yesterday to Clarify Today and Illuminate Tomorrow; Performance for Conflict Resolution and Political Stability in Nigeria - NIGERIA
The session will include a discussion of the use of performance in Nigeria as a means of conflict resolution and a performance of a comic solo skit titled “Bicycle.” “Bicycle” is a 10-minute comic solo skit dramatizing the anguish of a 45-year-old man who has to work as a house boy to make ends meet. The skit is a reflection of the extent to which poverty dehumanizes.
The Hankster will be there, capturing a little bit of it for you online. But if you can join us here in New York City Oct. 2-5, you'll be in for a treat. Hope to see you there!
PTW ‘08 is sponsored by the All Stars Project, Inc. (www.allstars.org) and the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (www.eastsideinstitute.org)
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Who listens to blogging heads?
From the Los Angeles Times:
"....They are more likely to identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans, rather than as independents, and are more likely to call themselves liberals or conservatives rather than moderates. Political blog readers are more likely to vote, give money to candidates or simply talk about politics. They live and breathe politics...."
h/t to Josh's tumblelog for this
"....They are more likely to identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans, rather than as independents, and are more likely to call themselves liberals or conservatives rather than moderates. Political blog readers are more likely to vote, give money to candidates or simply talk about politics. They live and breathe politics...."
h/t to Josh's tumblelog for this
Websites For Independent Voters
From Everyday Woman
By Marcia Ford (Reprinted from We the Purple: Faith, Politics, and the Independent Voter )
It would be impossible to list all the worthwhile independent-voter blogs and Web sites I've discovered, so I've pared the list down to sites that reflect general interests. Some of the links below refer to sites mentioned in the previous chapters, but some referred to earlier are not on the list below. That is no reflection on their value to independent voters but rather an effort to avoid too much duplication. Be sure to visit the sites mentioned in the chapters as well.
Most of the sites below provide a list of links to sites that narrow the field to, say, independent conservatives, evangelical progressives, or liberal populists.
Ballot Access News (http://www.ballot-access.org/): This one's a real eye-opener, even if you're not interested in ballot-access issues. Just read a few random posts, and you'll get an inkling of the challenges faced by independent candidates - and independent voters trying to simply register as independents. Of course, if you're a ballot-access junkie, this is where you'll get your fix.
Central Sanity (http://www.centralsanity.blogspot.com/): "Supporting the Rebellion of Reasonable People in an Unreasonable World." This site is for moderate Republican and independent voters but provides news and smart commentary that transcends political ideology.
Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP) (http://www.independentvoting.org/index.html): Pretty much a national clearinghouse for all things politically independent. This group has done more to rally and unite independents than any organization or individual out there. Great source of information and news, plus a link to the CUIP publication The Neo-Independent, where you'll find indie-related articles and commentary. This is where you start if you want to find out more or connect with other independents nationwide.
The Hankster (http://grassrootsindependent.blogspot.com/): Hands down, the best source for daily political news that independents would be interested in. Nancy Hanks has been politically active for decades and really knows her stuff. It would be a good idea to bookmark her site and visit it often.
Independent Texans (http://www.indytexans.org/): Lots of information of interest to Texans, but also some great information on political reform; just follow the link by that name in the left column.
Independent Voice (http://www.independentvoice.org/): The voice of California's 3.6 million independents, or at least those who have found the site and appreciate its perspective on independent politics. There's lots of overlap here with CUIP, but it's still a site worth visiting.
The Moderate Voice (http://www.themoderatevoice.com/): "Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporting, and popular culture features from across the political spectrum." Sometimes just fun stuff, but often the kind of news you won't get from the mainstream media. Well worth checking out.
Project Vote Smart (http://votesmart.org/index.htm): An all-around excellent site for information on candidates and the issues. Besides, you have to love a group that boasts a purple bus and the slogan, "We provide more information about the candidates than they remember about themselves."
The Purple State (http://thepurplestate.com/): "Political Commentary from the Youth Vote"; specifically, a group of students, mostly from Vassar, who founded the site because they "could not take it anymore" - "it" being the partisanship that is obscuring the nation's real concerns. Now they're blogging, and what they have to say is significant.
WatchBlog (http://watchblog.com/): I especially like the format of this site, which provides three columns of news and commentary of interest to Democrats and liberals, third-party voters and independents, and Republicans and conservatives. After reading the items in the center column, dedicated to us, you can spy on the partisans to the left and right.
Excerpted from We the Purple (Tyndale House Publishers) by Marcia Ford. Reprinted with permission.
RELATED LINK:
We the 'Purple'
By Marcia Ford (Reprinted from We the Purple: Faith, Politics, and the Independent Voter )
It would be impossible to list all the worthwhile independent-voter blogs and Web sites I've discovered, so I've pared the list down to sites that reflect general interests. Some of the links below refer to sites mentioned in the previous chapters, but some referred to earlier are not on the list below. That is no reflection on their value to independent voters but rather an effort to avoid too much duplication. Be sure to visit the sites mentioned in the chapters as well.
Most of the sites below provide a list of links to sites that narrow the field to, say, independent conservatives, evangelical progressives, or liberal populists.
Ballot Access News (http://www.ballot-access.org/): This one's a real eye-opener, even if you're not interested in ballot-access issues. Just read a few random posts, and you'll get an inkling of the challenges faced by independent candidates - and independent voters trying to simply register as independents. Of course, if you're a ballot-access junkie, this is where you'll get your fix.
Central Sanity (http://www.centralsanity.blogspot.com/): "Supporting the Rebellion of Reasonable People in an Unreasonable World." This site is for moderate Republican and independent voters but provides news and smart commentary that transcends political ideology.
Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP) (http://www.independentvoting.org/index.html): Pretty much a national clearinghouse for all things politically independent. This group has done more to rally and unite independents than any organization or individual out there. Great source of information and news, plus a link to the CUIP publication The Neo-Independent, where you'll find indie-related articles and commentary. This is where you start if you want to find out more or connect with other independents nationwide.
The Hankster (http://grassrootsindependent.blogspot.com/): Hands down, the best source for daily political news that independents would be interested in. Nancy Hanks has been politically active for decades and really knows her stuff. It would be a good idea to bookmark her site and visit it often.
Independent Texans (http://www.indytexans.org/): Lots of information of interest to Texans, but also some great information on political reform; just follow the link by that name in the left column.
Independent Voice (http://www.independentvoice.org/): The voice of California's 3.6 million independents, or at least those who have found the site and appreciate its perspective on independent politics. There's lots of overlap here with CUIP, but it's still a site worth visiting.
The Moderate Voice (http://www.themoderatevoice.com/): "Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporting, and popular culture features from across the political spectrum." Sometimes just fun stuff, but often the kind of news you won't get from the mainstream media. Well worth checking out.
Project Vote Smart (http://votesmart.org/index.htm): An all-around excellent site for information on candidates and the issues. Besides, you have to love a group that boasts a purple bus and the slogan, "We provide more information about the candidates than they remember about themselves."
The Purple State (http://thepurplestate.com/): "Political Commentary from the Youth Vote"; specifically, a group of students, mostly from Vassar, who founded the site because they "could not take it anymore" - "it" being the partisanship that is obscuring the nation's real concerns. Now they're blogging, and what they have to say is significant.
WatchBlog (http://watchblog.com/): I especially like the format of this site, which provides three columns of news and commentary of interest to Democrats and liberals, third-party voters and independents, and Republicans and conservatives. After reading the items in the center column, dedicated to us, you can spy on the partisans to the left and right.
Excerpted from We the Purple (Tyndale House Publishers) by Marcia Ford. Reprinted with permission.
RELATED LINK:
We the 'Purple'
Monday, June 30, 2008
Help! We've been algorithmed again!
For both candidates, the best running mate is Colin Powell, a former U.S. Army general and former secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush, according to the survey, which was powered by an Affinnova algorithm it calls "evolutionary optimization." ....
Monday, June 23, 2008
Performing the World 2008
ANNOUNCING:
Performing the World 2008 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
A unique conference/festival of performance activists from around the world
New York City
Thursday evening October 2 - Sunday afternoon October 5, 2008
A three-day "happening" of performances, workshops, panel discussions, lectures, community tours and improvisation. Performing the World 2008 (PTW '08) brings together activists, artists, educators, young people, practitioners and scholars from dozens of countries, all of whom are involved in the emergence of performance as a new way of relating to, understanding and changing the world. Open to all.
In the midst of this exciting Happening, The Hankster will be hosting a workshop called "Blogging the World: An Online Stage for Activists (Or Performatory Blogging for Everyone)". "Blogging the World" will be both a session which addresses Performing The World's themes of community-building, performance and development, as well as a performance within a performance--a "happening within a happening", broadcast throughout the blogosphere. Stay tuned!
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Conversations on Insiders and Outsiders
From Wired blog network: Anger Simmers, As Some Democratic State Bloggers' Access To the National Convention Floor Limited
This is a revealing article about who gets credentials from the DNC to blog their convention. The big Dem bloggers who have raised mucho $$$ but nevertheless didn't get the official nod complain that the DNC is supporting "people who are coming in with influence and access," rather than "independent bootstrapped bloggers"...
Call me crazy, but isn't that the whole point? -NH
This is a revealing article about who gets credentials from the DNC to blog their convention. The big Dem bloggers who have raised mucho $$$ but nevertheless didn't get the official nod complain that the DNC is supporting "people who are coming in with influence and access," rather than "independent bootstrapped bloggers"...
Call me crazy, but isn't that the whole point? -NH
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Hillary: To Twitter, Too Late?
As Primaries End, Clinton Appeals Directly to Blogs
She held her first blogger-only conference call on Friday, phoning in to about 40 bloggers from the campaign trail in Oregon. And the campaign has stepped up its use of Twitter, a social-networking service that sends short, text-based posts, to make real-time calls to arms..... (New York Times)
She held her first blogger-only conference call on Friday, phoning in to about 40 bloggers from the campaign trail in Oregon. And the campaign has stepped up its use of Twitter, a social-networking service that sends short, text-based posts, to make real-time calls to arms..... (New York Times)
Friday, August 10, 2007
Talk/Talk: Getting Past the Pros
Salit: Bernstein commented that one of the dynamics in this election – and this connects to the question of whether 2008 is an automatic win for the Democrats – is that the voters are trying to "get past the pros."
Newman: I don't know if he means "pros" or "prose."
Salit: Well, he did write a very long book about Hillary! The voters are trying to get past the political pros to make their own judgment about who the candidates are and where they want the country to go.
Newman: I agree with him.
Salit: Could you say more about that?
Newman: It has to do with the changes in journalism and communications, the blogs, the Internet and all that. Young people are more educated, more sophisticated, less interested in simply following party doctrines. That's the phenomenon that he's pointing to. Does it mean that they'll do the right thing? No. It just means that they'll be able to take more direct credit for the mistake or the success of 2008. It's a more educated American public, politically so..... (from Talk/Talk)
Newman: I don't know if he means "pros" or "prose."
Salit: Well, he did write a very long book about Hillary! The voters are trying to get past the political pros to make their own judgment about who the candidates are and where they want the country to go.
Newman: I agree with him.
Salit: Could you say more about that?
Newman: It has to do with the changes in journalism and communications, the blogs, the Internet and all that. Young people are more educated, more sophisticated, less interested in simply following party doctrines. That's the phenomenon that he's pointing to. Does it mean that they'll do the right thing? No. It just means that they'll be able to take more direct credit for the mistake or the success of 2008. It's a more educated American public, politically so..... (from Talk/Talk)
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Open Left and independent voters
Why Political Machines Like Static Races by Matt Stoller on Open Left (now on The Hankster sidebar) is worth a read. As an independent, I agree that the process that the Parties go through for presidential elections is rote, but I also think that what makes this election exciting is what's happening on the outskirts of the parties -- the rise of independent voters (and candidates) is a significant departure from the winner-take-all politics-as-usual riff we get at election time. It's early, and non-partisan voices have an opportunity to be heard right now, at least until the election gets totally sewed up....
And while you're there, read The Case For Blogosphere Funding by Chris Bowers, who delivered his message at YearlyKos this morning...
And while you're there, read The Case For Blogosphere Funding by Chris Bowers, who delivered his message at YearlyKos this morning...
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