Success
I shall now be known not as Sara but as The Thing That Does Homework.
I've been drowning in a little sea I like to call Annotated Bibliography (AB), so I haven't posted much about what we're discussing this week, unfortunately.
A few notes:
1. Our leader's post is hilarious.
2. Kristen wrote a very thoughtful, well-written post that you might want to check out.
3. This was an interesting read, particularly the conclusion:
Internet political professionals often concentrate our attention on the particular tools we use to get our messages out, but the real effect of the Internet and the electronics explosion of the last 15 years has been the immense deepening and broadening of the sea of information in which we now swim. Our biggest task is just to get noticed as we drift along.
4. LamontBlog's "Last Call" post was fitting: a showing of success rather than defeat. Though Lieberman may have won, Lamont didn't lose. Well said: We took on one major party in the primary, and we won an historic victory. But, in so many ways, we had to take on the combined efforts of two major parties in the general - an even more herculean task that, amazingly, we almost pulled off too.
5. I'm looking forward to tonight's class.
I've been drowning in a little sea I like to call Annotated Bibliography (AB), so I haven't posted much about what we're discussing this week, unfortunately.
A few notes:
1. Our leader's post is hilarious.
2. Kristen wrote a very thoughtful, well-written post that you might want to check out.
3. This was an interesting read, particularly the conclusion:
Internet political professionals often concentrate our attention on the particular tools we use to get our messages out, but the real effect of the Internet and the electronics explosion of the last 15 years has been the immense deepening and broadening of the sea of information in which we now swim. Our biggest task is just to get noticed as we drift along.
4. LamontBlog's "Last Call" post was fitting: a showing of success rather than defeat. Though Lieberman may have won, Lamont didn't lose. Well said: We took on one major party in the primary, and we won an historic victory. But, in so many ways, we had to take on the combined efforts of two major parties in the general - an even more herculean task that, amazingly, we almost pulled off too.
5. I'm looking forward to tonight's class.
Thanks for the shoutout Sara! And for picking out some new discussion topics; the quote you pulled (not Lamontblog's) seems to suggest that the poli-blog legacy is the outlet for so many more voices - screaming so many more opinions - than might otherwise be heard. Altogether, the effect that more information is available to base your decision on, regardless of whether or not its legitimate facts or mere propaganda. Their legacy, in essence, was to expand on the collective knowledge available to internet-saavy voters and to highlight the nibblets that traditional media would serve to the general public. Holla back bloggers!
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Kristen |
4:20 PM