I feel like I've written a thousand emails, started a 100 websites and seen everything under the sun regarding engaging people online for the election. Today, I tired.
With all the talk about the relevance of bloggers as the new citizen journalists (see Dan Gillmor's book We the Media), which I totaly believe in, I wonder whether we are all just talking to ourselves. Are the hundreds of thousands of people who come to Kos everyday the same people who are going to Talking Points Memo. Are we creating the big echo chamber just for ourselves?
But we converse. This isn't just a one way dialog. When will the blogs be the foundation for the progressive message like radio is for conservatives? No media outlets are picking up good fact checking from blogs. It's still only the purview of media reporters like Kurtz. It'll happen...just a matter of time. Ahh, that felt good....