Politics
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Blue Highways, Blue America
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/19/2004 - 18:59Surfing with BlogExplosion, I found this blog entry.
'You Know You're From Maine When...'
It is the perfect illustration of the East Coast Liberal Elitism that I think we need more of in the Democratic Party.
Follow your passion
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/19/2004 - 14:27There is an old say, follow your passion and the money will follow. Well, I’ve been following my passion, and I’m still waiting. This evening, my passion has me sitting on a train into New York City. I will be having dinner with Dean Landsman to talk about blogs, radio, podcasting, and who knows what else.
Today, I downloaded iPodder and have loaded a couple Podcasts onto my laptop. I am listening to Coverville. It is a 25 meg file that I downloaded via iPodder and copied to my laptop. My initial reaction to iPodder was, “Where is the good content?” Coverville is some of that good content. At this moment, I’m listening to Sid Vicious singing, “My way”. This is the sort of stuff you can’t get on the canned anesthetized mainstream media.
What to do about the DNC
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 11/17/2004 - 11:43(Originally published in a DailyKos Diary)
Kos writes, “People want to know what to do. Be patient -- there are people out there getting the list of 440 voters updated, with contact info, etc. Those guys are about to get flooded”.
I am one of those people out there getting the list of 440 voters updated. (Check out http://platform.smartcampaigns.com/DNCMemberState to find the information about different members and let me know any additional information you have).
I have received emails from people claiming that Gov. Dean doesn’t want people to start contacting DNC members yet, that we should wait until he decides if he wants the job, or if there is someone in particular he would like us to support. Other emails have said that he doesn’t want DNC members flooded for fear of a backlash.
My view is a little bit different than Kos or Dean’s. I believe that the Democratic Party needs massive change. Gov. Dean has said that if all you do is vote, you get a ‘D’. If all you do is sign an online petition saying you would like Gov. Dean to be DNC Chair, well, I don’t think that is even a passing grade.
The Democratic Message
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 11/16/2004 - 07:22(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
Yesterday evening, several of us who write for the Greater Democracy blog received an email from Elissa Bishop-Becker saying:
“On C-Span now is a live program on the Digital Future--part of a series from the Library of Congress. David Weinberger is one of the panelists and you can email questions.”
The email turned out to be a good illustration of what David was talking about.
For those of you that don’t know David, he’s this slightly goofy guy with a weblog that I met through the Dean campaign. For those of you that do know him, he is a brilliant speaker, a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Institute for Internet & Society, and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto.
In his comments at the Library of Congress, he spoke about the categorization of information and how the Internet is changing all of that. He spoke about the importance of personal connections, trust, friendship, and the sharing of information.
As I listened to him, a lot of thoughts gelled in my mind.
Inside out politics
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 11/08/2004 - 15:45(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
There is a mailing list where the true power elite share their ideas about the direction of democracy. Or at least where people who frequently contribute to this blog talk about posts they will be writing, as well as the direction of this blog and visions for the future of this community. There are a lot of bright and strong willed people on this list and at times it can get a bit testy.
