What I am surprised about, and have not seen yet - a linking of sites together so that
common calls to action can be broadcast over cooperating blogs and websites.
From Dkos, MyDD, Atrios, DU to TPM, HuffPo, Salon, various NPR chat boards .. there has to be a way to link them all together in a common alert system.
There has to be a way to get the best minds behind all ofthe major websites and blogs together and form a massive network to co-ordinate activism and broadcast critical news.
{This not self-promotion - I have no blog to speak of and have no website, I'm just one of the hoi polloi}
Example: a way to co-ordinate widespread actions - whether these are boycotts of goods and services, a call-in or write-in campaign or street protest.
It requires that those people at the heads of these boards & websites get together to form a common action committee, and also for some type of software to be written to broadcast the alerts once a decision is made as to what to do.
What would it take to form a network that would link all the blogs and websites together?
I am not an expert on the internet, but there has to be some sort of feed that would allow us to have our own color coded 'Homeland Security Alert System'; sort of like a 'Progressive Emergency Broadcast System', but for linking together blogs - web sites so we can act as a full force as a common community.
I have seen the arguments against this concept, that it won't work, people are too independent, people resent beong told what to "do" ..
But this is not asking for leadership in a political sense - it is asking for co-ordination in a political sense, with all of us having feedback into the process, by having polls and discussions in advance, or by delegation of some authority to call for action within the community.
We need the common thread and notification network to tie it all together.
Opinions welcome!
I included a poll, just to get an idea if I am all wet on this or not.
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I guess I just posted this at a bad time?
People are not interested?
Sort of depressing, the lack of response.
Time to re-formulate the premise;
I'm not giving up this easily.