On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:32:18PM -0400, Mike wrote: > > "Wrong" is subjective. I think everyone does what they can do. If a > > busy, suburban parent of four who hacks in his spare time is pissed off > > enough about a techno-political issue to post his opinion to a weblog, > > webpage, or mailing list etc. then more power to him/her! Better then > > nothing, I say. > > The problem with "WEBlog, WEBpage, or mailing list" is that they only > reach the people who are online and are looking for them. I know that > they have staff that search the papers for items of interest, but to they > also search online?
Blogging isn't useful on its own, but when a _real_ lobbyist wants to push an agenda that's heavily blogged, it does allow them to say "I have a list of N websites maintained by people whose opinions on Bill C31337 range from `just how far up their asses are our legislators heads?' to `this is the end of life as we know it'" That said, as much of an impact could be had (and the visible crackpot behaviour significantly reduced) if the bloggers just paid some token membership due to an advocacy group that agreed with them and could claim to represent N members with a much more eloquent opinion. -- Kristofer Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
