October 7, 2003
The President's Blog
Even the President of the United States has a blog...
As maphet notes, Dean pokes a bit of fun at the Bush campaign's efforts to jump on the blog bandwagon. I think it is a step in the right direction. Despite the fact that the blog is less interactive than the Dean blog, it is a good first step. It gives us a place to refer to (after all, we can still link to things posted on the Presidental blog). It may not start the discussion on the site itself, but it will start the discussion in the blogosphere. People will link, people will comment, and the people who run the blog will, hopefully, be following those links and listening to what they have to say.
The power of the weblog comes not so much from publishing, but from the dialogue created by the published artifact.
Good point. I think another good thing of political blogs is that we can get the candidates' views in their own words (well, sort of their own), rather than mediated through CNN or FOXNews in 10 second sound bites.
I wish I could have gone to BloggerCon. It appears that political blogging was a big discussion point.
Posted by: maphet at October 7, 2003 9:41 AMYou have no frame of reference. You're like a child who walks on to the set of a movie.
Posted by: Walter S. at October 7, 2003 12:43 PMI like the part on Bush's blog which says "what's a blog?" Maybe Greg, you should include that on yours.
Posted by: BubbyT at October 7, 2003 9:08 PMWalter, let's go bowling.
Posted by: Greg at October 12, 2003 10:38 PM
