{"id":97,"date":"2004-02-19T23:53:29","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T03:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/02\/19\/how-many-blogs-can-a-meta-blog-blog-"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:30:18","slug":"how-many-blogs-can-a-meta-blog-blog-if-a-meta-blog-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/02\/how-many-blogs-can-a-meta-blog-blog-if-a-meta-blog-could\/","title":{"rendered":"How many blogs can a meta-blog blog if a meta-blog could…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

(Talk about biting the hand that feeds you<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

After attending my first (and probably last) Thursday evening Harvard weblog
\nmeeting, I think I understand part of the reason why the Dean campaign
\nimploded.<\/p>\n

\nThere was a lot of agonizing over the Dean\/Blog “movement” and where it’s heading, but very little introspection
\nabout exactly what went wrong in Iowa and Everything After. Did the press, the DNC, and every other
\nEstablishment Institution assassinate Dean<\/a>? Yes. Did Dean \/ Trippi make critical tactical mistakes in murder-suiciding Gephardt<\/a>? Yes<\/a>. Yes<\/a>. Yes<\/a>. Yes<\/a>. AND…<\/p>\n

\n…To me the failure of the Dean Blog movement to translate into actual on-the-ground<\/a> votes became clear when Rachel<\/a> and I arrived and not a not
\na single one of our fellow bloggers said  hello, introduced
\nhimself (“herself” being distinctly outnumbered), or otherwise
\nacknowledged the fact that we n00bs were there at all. This same group
\ncavalierly dismissed the blog-unaware as politically unimportant, and
\nblithely and without irony discussed the problem of the echo chamber<\/a>. Hello? There’s a real world out there<\/a>?<\/p>\n

No, the bloggers did not bring Dean’s candidacy crashing down. I
\nwouldn’t give them that much credit. (Seriously, guys, people have a
\nhard enough time getting involved in politics; do you really think they
\nare going to get involved in meta-<\/span>politics?)
\nBut it is clear to me that the gap between politics in the blog o’
\nsphere and politics in the world the rest of us live in remains a chasm.
\nWhatever you feel about campaign finance, voters aren’t just products
\nyou can buy with dollars. Raising money through the Web was the
\nbeginning of a movement, not its end.\n<\/p>\n

Blogs will change the world, yet the world will go on as usual<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

(And yes, I am<\/span> still casting my Massachusetts Democratic Party primary ballot for Howard Dean<\/a>.)\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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