I haven't been blogging here much of late because most of my blogging energy is currently concentrated over at the Personal Democracy Forum, a site that I am editor of in my "spare time." We're covering everything from emergent democracy to citizens media to online political advertising over there.
My latest blog post is an open call for help finding state and local political bloggers. Here's what I wrote:
If 2004 was the Year of the Big Nationally-Influential Political Blogs, could 2005 be the year that blogs that focus on state and local politics come into their own? And I mean blogs written by passionate amateurs, not the "Politics1[stateabbreviation].com" sites that are useful aggregators of local political news, but not gathering places for conversation and debate influencing the local political and journalistic scene.
That's my hunch. Take Sound Politics, a Republican-leaning site in Washington State that is still banging hard on the disputed gubernatorial election there. Or Portland Communique, a Democratic-leaning site that closely tracks municipal politics.
Are you a state or local political blogger? Do you read any? If so, chime in and we'll build a directory...
Posted by msifry at January 6, 2005 02:44 PM