Blogs listed in the permanent blogroll list are showing up in the random blogroll list of ten randomly selected blogs. Just today James Wolcott and BlueJersey both appeared in the Random BLogroll list.
So not only are the little and local progressive blogs getting short shrift by being left off of the permanent blogroll, but also the big blogs are getting an extra boost by appearing sometimes in both the permanent blogroll list and the rotating random blogroll list of ten blogs.
DailyKos is a community of progressive readers and writers. Some with their own blogs and some who participate in local community blogs.
After the jump I'll talk some more about community.
The largest value to come out of DailyKos is the resource value that it provides the progressive community. We inform ourselves and we provide an opportunity for the community to communicate with the larger world where media is becoming increasing controlled by fewer more powerful media conglomerations of already powerful media corporations.
DailyKos is an anti-dote to that concentration and a potential force against that concentration. So when our own community begins to reinforce concentrations of our own power and especially at the expense of our own less powerful, then that is a wrong that needs to be addressed.
I have some idea of the difficulty of producing a random selection from a limited list of possibilities via website coding and I have to say it is my belief that it would not be difficult to generate a random list of ten blogs that excluded the already listed permanent blogroll blogs.
I say we rise up and demand fairness.
Now if I may digress, I would also like to plug multi-vote polls. How many times have you posted a poll and had to create convoluted choices in order to glean the information you desired? And how much easier would it have been for you if you could have posted a multi-vote, approval type poll, where your readers could select more than one of the possible options?
Years ago I was made aware of an option in the DailyKos software that allows for multi-vote polling. Again it would not be difficult for the owner(s) of this site to turn on that capability. Why don't they do it?
I refuse to speculate on their motivations. No good would come of it. Suffice it to say that once again I call on my readers to rise up and demand ease of usability.
Yours truly - Jeff Wegerson - a member of the Prairie State Blue community run blog serving Illinois and sometimes located via the Random Blogroll.