Month: April 2006

Over at Evergreen Politics Ken’s good idea for a state party blog is getting a thorough airing. Good for Jon for putting it up there. Anyway, I put up this comment that I think bears posting here and some additional explanation: I agree with Ken and Jon that there is a huge benefit for the…

From what I can tell from a frantic tagging session this morning, 31 of Washington’s 49 (give or take) Dem legislative district’s have websites. This is pretty cool. If you’re into tagging on del.icio.us, use the WA_LD tag if you see that I missed one.

(yeah, I know I spelled his name wrong, but it is just easier this way to keep all that good Carl traffic headed my way) Ken Camp has a good idea about a state party blog, and chairman Pelz responds saying that he would be afraid of what people would use it for. Comments and…

Ken Camp has an idea that he passes on to the chair of the state party, who writes Ken back: One point that concerns me is to have an official Party blog. Invariably some comment will be posted there, and then attributed by someone as being from “an official State Party publication”. A scandal is…

I just finished reading Ken‘s piece on why the Washington state Democratic Party should invest more directly in the netroots and forget about their current “let them blog” attitude. Part of this attitude seems to be coming from a perception that there really isn’t anything to be gained from going onto the internet in a…

Matt Stoller at MyDD picks up my idea. I’m, like, wow. Thanks.

Let’s see if anyone bites: At Noeme’s suggestion, I’m going to put out there something I’ve been thinking about the last couple of days. The only way I can name it is “The Netroots Legislative Agenda,” though I’m not in love with that name. (As a way of background, I came to this idea after…

Well, not really a mea culpa in the true Latin sense, but she does share and rebut her readers’ views on the topic. From The (Collville) Statesman-Examiner, one of the papers that still prints Adele: Okay, so I failed to get much, if any, agreement on my supposition that the blacks came to America by…

Portland is pretty lucky to have not only members of its city council blogging, but also their mayor. And, they’re not just using blogs as another (rss feed strengthened) way to get their well oiled opinions out there, but they’re blogging with comments on. Which means they’re having conversations, or at least encouraging conversation between…