There was an article in today’s Press and Sun-Bulletin concerning Nancy Pelosi fielding questions from Internet bloggers after being sworn in as House Speaker. She has full-time staff person engaged in blogger outreach.
“It’s a power base and its influential and its an opportunity. And you what? It exists,” said John Avorosis, who runs Americablog.com. “It should only scare you if you on their bad side.”
I couldn’t find an online version of the article.
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This is where blogs and chat rooms certainly differentiate themselves. While in chat rooms, anyone with a username and password can start a post. With the blog, however, only users can comment, which means that politicians have complete control over what topics and issues are discussed. That's what also makes blogs great for education. While we use blogs to break down classroom walls and generate thinking outside of the 40-minute period in an organized and controlled manner, politicians are using blogs to generate ideas from their supporters and get the word out on topics and issues they think are their strong suits. Blogs also make them appear open-minded since posts are open for comments.
I would imagine that nay sayers are abused on such blogs and their comments discredited by supporters. I haven't seen such behavior, however, but have posted and commented to chat rooms in which people have been abused for asking "stupid" questions or writing "stupid" comments. People are quite bold with their words when they can hide behind a keyboard.
I Googled Pelosi's blog, but found nothing. Where is it?
I tried looking for the blog myself without success. I'll try again.
Ed
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