Just checked out Gary Hart's "blog" and am not impressed. The initial posting closes with this:
"However, I'm committed to using the Internet as a vital tool to engage people on critical policy matters and the future of our country."
Uh-oh. Use of the words "Internet", "tool" and "engage" are not a good sign that Hart has a clue.
The hackspeak is bad enough...then the comments window slaps the visitor in the face with a policy block in LARGE type as if bloggers are myoptic, rowdy toddlers that might spill juice and ding the Senator's furniture if left to their own devices and require the services of a babysitter moderator.
Who is kidding whom? Senator Hart doesn't have a blog...his comments moderator has a blog.
It would be great if he had the balls to actually mix it up with us, however given the blunt, anti-spin, fact/ass checking nature of the blogosphere I don't hold any hope of Hart, or any Pol, doing so.
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Posted by: jaspar at March 30, 2003 07:50 PMThe way they're handling comments really bugs me. They disable the comments whenever there's no one available to monitor them, which means they're OFF most of the time. Like I said a few days ago on my blog: Either leave the comments on all (or at least most of) the time or don't have comments at all.
Politicians and the media just don't get the Internet. I think it's going to take another 30 or 40 years (when today's kids have grown up) before there is anyone in the government or the media who really understands the Internet and maybe not even then. Government and media ewbies have to allow themselves to be sucked into the existing culture or they don't survive, therefore very little ever changes.
BTW, found you via Andrea. Sorry to be so long-winded in your comments. :-)
EEK! I dropped an "n" somehow. "ewbies" should be "newbies" of course.
Posted by: Lynn S at April 2, 2003 06:50 AMSo far Pols seem to think that the Web and blogs in particular are another PR venue for campaign/party flacks to pump rote position pieces and party hype. They do not get that it is dynamic...or worse they fear interface with us.
Andrea rocks.