BloggerCon II Weblog - Celebrating the art and science of weblogs, April 17 at Harvard Law School.

Permanent link to archive for 12/3/04. Friday, December 3, 2004

Blogging and local politics.

A discussion I'll lead at Harvard's I&S conference next Saturday in Cambridge...
 
Tip O'Neil said all politics is local -- it seems Tom Daschle would agree. Blogs are about decentralization (right?) but in the election of 2004 the focus was blogs at the center, in the Presidential primaries and then the national campaign. This session starts with the assumption that blogs in US politics will grow from the local level, up through the state legislatures, to the House and Senate, and then the Presidency. Maybe in 2024 we'll elect a blogger as President, but surely in 2006 we'll elect at least one blogger to the House.
 
This session will be a brainstorm, idea sharing, not whether blogging and politics make sense at the local level, but how to achieve an upgrade to the democratic process using the new tools at the local level.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 12/3/04; 11:53:55 AM - --