28 março 2005

ECOPOL

Blogues na política:
Tories plan to beat "bias" by bringing in bloggers: The Conservative Right is to turn to new American campaigning techniques and the internet to try to revive the party and overcome what it sees as opposition from the metropolitan Establishment.
Only weeks away from the general election, senior Conservatives will open a new front today in the battle for ideas by creating a website advocating ?social conservatism?.
It will invite people to bypass the media and put forward their own views on how the party should evolve. [...]
It wants people to use the increasingly popular practice of "blogging" - writing online diaries - to break the power of the broadcast media.

More politicians write blogs to bypass mainstream media: Politicians across the spectrum are discovering the merits of online journals including former presidential candidate Howard Dean, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. [via Ponto Media]

Bloggers narrowly dodge federal crackdown: Political bloggers and other online commentators narrowly avoided being slammed with a sweeping set of Internet regulations