Politicians Catch on to Blogging

Jason Jardine wrote to mention a C|Net report on an increase in the use of blogs by politicians in the U.S. capitol. From the article: "Just a year ago, a DailyKos posting from someone like John Kerry would have been all but unheard of, and blogging of any kind by members of Congress was almost nonexistent. But now that dynamic is starting to change, and slowly, members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are beginning to appreciate the value of blogs. 'When I reach out to the blog community, it gives me an opportunity to begin a dialogue with an extremely politically sophisticated and active community that I otherwise might not be able to reach,' Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com."

Comments

Re:One minor point

[kidgenius]

Actually, Obama doesn't just blog, he also does a podcast. And, he speaks. So the "pols" are at least doing something, not just having interns generate stuff.

Re:Howard Dean

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesse Ventura did this a few years prior to Howard Dean.