August 10, 2005
culturekitchen in the top 100 of the liberal blogosphere
by Liza Sabater
I was on IM with Gina of YearlyKos, when I got the news about Report - The Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere. I had no idea Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller were hard at work writing a white-paper about the liberal blogosphere. Neither did I know that this site, with the fanstastic collaboration of Lorraine Berry and Jeff Langstraat, had made it to the top 100 of the Liberal blogosphere.
Let's say my loins are swollen with delight.
The report is like a "cliff notes" of the history of the libera blogosphere. At 22 pages it is rather succint (Chris says they had to cut it down from 70 pages). It still packed with really good insights about these things called the progressive blogs, especially with this comment :
Progressive blogs build communities of activists and generate new political activity online. Blogs and online organizations offer forums where people can actively engage in progressive politics - real involvement from people talking about politics, policy, organizing, their lives, etc. The degree to which progressive blogs encourage active engagement in political dialogue has fueled their rapid growth over the past several years.The single most important difference between the blogospheres is this: the progressive blogosphere is introducing new actors into the political scene. The right-wing blogosphere is facilitating further organization of what was already a fairly coherent political world.
The money shot being
The single most important difference between the blogospheres is this: the progressive blogosphere is introducing new actors into the political scene.
This is intrinsic to the beatuy of what happened at BlogHer. A lot of women give voice for the first time on a national and international scope.
More to come on these two.
Posted by Liza Sabater in Activism
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Say it loud, say it proud!
Congratulations, Liza!!!!!!!
I had no idea how many people are reading us, and I'm thrilled to have played a small part in this. However, the rise is all about you, girl.
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Comment by: lorraine at August 10, 2005 08:59 PM
Liza,
I'm so excited for you!! It's my honour to be part of this, but this baby is yours. I just get to keep an eye on it every now and then. You should be so proud.
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Comment by: alizinha at August 10, 2005 11:55 PM
congratulations!
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Comment by: Terrance Heath at August 12, 2005 05:17 PM
Congrats. The report, however, left me with some serious doubts. The one passage that is seared into my brain is this one.
Clearly, blogging is a world with a handful of haves, and a nearly uncountable number of have‐nots. There are likely a few hundred thousand blogs in this country that talk about politics, but less than one‐tenth of one percent of them account for more than 99% of all political blogging traffic. [emphasis added]
I'm trying to figure out what that means for the 99.9% of us who are sharing the remaining 1% of the traffic.
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Comment by: Jeff at August 10, 2005 06:51 PM