Links, Mostly Political
This link via elearnspace
(Fairly) New blog: HeadspaceJ - focus is on interaction design, learning, edu/tech. Only thing that is needed is an RSS feed…:).
Another link from Object Learning - RSS: A Love Story
And yesterday I sent some political weblogs plus some political articles about blogging to my friend, Jim Flowers. I find these very interesting. Here’s the list I sent him, plus some.
Howard Dean
Blog for America, the official Howard Dean weblog.
http://blog.deanforamerica.com
Tom Watson
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/
WatchBlog
http://www.watchblog.com/
Gary Hart
http://www.garyhartnews.com/hart/blog/
Richard Allan
http://www.sheffieldhallam.co.uk/blog/
James Mills
http://jamesmills.blogspot.com/
Senator Robert Byrd
http://byrd.senate.gov/index.html
Articles:
Why Politicians Need Weblogs
http://www.bloggerheads.com/politicians.asp
Get Your Senator Blogging
http://www.bloggerheads.com/senator_weblog.asp
Then in Techy Musings I found another interesting post on Politicians and Weblogs. It’s British politics, but listen to this:
Nobody really is interested in what their MP is doing. It’s a shame, but it’s here that I think that weblogging could come to the rescue. If only every MP felt accountable in some way to their constituencies outside of the election process, in a direct way, they might see how weblogging could help. Explaining what they have been up to on a periodic basis, and explaining how they justify their position.
As you can see, some are not just here in the United States. If anybody has others, let me know. I find it interesting to follow to see how these different political figures approach weblogging.
And I just saw this from July 14th on Techy Musings.
Bloggers were visiting parliament to campaign for more MP’s to run weblogs
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