by Melissa Ryan, Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 06:17:42 PM EDT
Lately I've been thinking about information and it's relationship to political activism on the Internet. Fifteen years after first logging on I am still amazed by how much information is available to me on the the Internet and how well organized most of it is. But what really blows my mind are how many ways I have to share information with others and organize around it. Usenet, blogs, YouTube, Wiki, podcasts, listserv; there are so many tools available to users and the potential within each one seems endless.
The vast array of tools can also present a problem for political activists. Try as we might no one can utilize everything. At the same time everyone has their own preferred way of receiving information. I often run into this hurdle when I want to get the word out about an issue or campaign locally. My first instinct is of course to blog, but not everyone I know reads the blogs. Some people will read a link if you email it to them, others will want text. And I have a few people who rarely check their email but will happily read anything printed out and passed around at a meeting. While I recognize the importance of getting the word out to as many people as possible after awhile the effort can become tiresome.
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by Melissa Ryan, Sat Jun 02, 2007 at 02:59:25 PM EDT
Thanks to Chris Bowers for giving me this opportunity and to the MyDD community for being so welcoming. Some of you may know me as CGG which was my old name here for commenting.
Yesterday was one of the craziest days I've experienced in Connecticut Politics, and believe me with last year's Senate race I've witnessed some serious political craziness. First, Lou DeLuca The Republican State Senate minority leader, was arrested, and charged with conspiracy to commit threatening. The arrest was the result of a longtime investigation into mob influence on the State's trash hauling industry. Then, late last night, after two years of essentially doing nothing about energy, the CT House overwhelmingly passed an energy bill compromise that probably won't do anything to lower our sky high electric rates.
As I'm following both of these stories, my new gig here at MyDD is always on my mind. What should my first post be about? How do I balence work at both blogs, especially when so much is going on here at home?
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by Stephen Neitzke, Sun Jun 11, 2006 at 07:53:51 AM EDT
© by Stephen Neitzke, 2006
Even a short time spent barging around in the blogosphere demonstrates that a DD/rep-govt blogging community is sorely needed here. We need cross-country organization to help clean up the unconstitutional and arbitrary control of local- and state-level I&R. Governments constantly perpetrate felony conspiracies against I&R rights and citizen-proposed law in the states. They get away with those felonies because they are not being watched anywhere near closely enough. We're just flat not organized enough to do the watching and reacting, let alone the proactive stuff that should have been done decades ago.The blogosphere gives us -- the DD/rep-govt community -- the best set of organizing and action-item tools available anywhere in our society.We could do all the needed organizing and consensus-finding in face-to-face meetings, Internet bulletin board communities, and email discussion lists. But we'd still be short, compared to what we can do in the blogosphere.
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