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...stop flame war that is the political blogosphere, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga knows how to get attention. He's kidding, of course. We're talking about the rhetorical excesses that can spill out of the impassioned debate that takes place on his creation, DailyKos.com, the world's most popular political blog...
...Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics,(www.crashingthegate.com) a primer co-written with Jerome Armstrong on wresting control of the Democratic party away from consultants and D.C. power brokers, a group that Moulitsas refers to as "that clubby elite club." Many of Moulitsas? colleagues in the blog world wonder if Moulitsas isn?t a member of that club himself. He claims to have used the site to funnel over $1 million to Democratic candidates across the country and is enough of a power broker to have pull within for the party machinery he so wants to overhaul...
...there is absolutely no fear anymore," said the 24-year-old activist. "I mean, there is of course fear when the moment happens, but its not the fear that makes you stay home - you go back again." Almost a month later, Abdel Fatah is still in jail - and still blogging. "Today it hit me, I am really in prison," he wrote in a note smuggled out of jail and posted by his wife on the couple?s blog, "Manal and Alaa?s Bit Bucket." "I?m not sure how I feel...
Then again, the view from the long tail depends on which end of it your product resides. Take Stephen Downes, a senior officer of Canada's National Research Council, whose arcane, overlooked blog is a classic long-tail story. "I live in the long tail," Downes said at a blogging event in Vancouver last year. And not necessarily by choice. "[Bloggers] who are in the long tail would probably rather not be part of it," he said. "They simply want to be read." As an earlier catchphrase put it, if the tail were smarter, it would...
...fight, then, was really about whether there was a fight. There was not; more an animated discussion among people who agree to differ. The reaction from American critics (summarized on the Filmmaker magazine blog) was more energetically mixed. But all parties observed the rules of decorum...