YearlyKos
What is local blogging
Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 11:56pm.At Yearly Kos I kept hearing that local blogging is where it's at. There were two panels and a caucus on "state-local blogging." The San Francisco Chronicle reports that "Local blogs are key to future of politics." People are learning that the smaller the area represented, the more impact each constituent has
And yet, there was hardly a mention of county or municipal politics at Yearly Kos, other than how to work with local Democratic Parties. I'm certainly not opposed to advocacy targeting state and federal reps - in fact BlueNC.com does a great job of this and more power to you - but I think that truly local politics transcends party and hinges much more on individual relationships and reputations in a way that even state house races really don't.
YearlyKos - Ustream.tv
Submitted by Betsy Muse on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 10:23am.Hi everybody. There are technical difficulties in Second Life's version of YearlyKos and the audio isn't working on the ustream.tv, but thought I'd embed it anyway.
If it doesn't work later, I'll take it down.
So, Should I Move to NC-08? Or: What Would You Do for Larry?
Submitted by Oliver Queen on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 1:57pm.Well, everyone heard Larry's call this morning, and while it seems unlikely that the election in NC-08 will be as close as it was last time, I am nonetheless considering moving to Charlotte after college (to teach or do politics - it's definitely a seperate decision). Is it worth it for me to move to NC-08 as opposed to somewhere else in Charlotte? ;) Maybe I'm not going to go that extreme for Larry, but it's definitely exciting to see this much energy this early on. And I'd like very much to contribute to that energy again.
Now, I've been thinking about what we could do this early on (aside from moving), and I've been thinking of different kinds of fundraisers - one idea is to raise enough money ($5000) to make Larry the first candidate sponsor of YearlyKos, an investment that I think would create dividends in Democratic donors. I would love to see a bunch of people from the BlueNC gang (and any other NC blogas) come together to have a netroots party to support two things (YearlyKos and Larry) that the vast majority of us believe in. Who would be up for such a gathering?
