Betsy Phillips attended a blog summit at Vanderbilt last night where political blogger, Sean Braisted, spoke with two other online scribes.
As for political blogging, Phillips reports that Sean spoke that it’s kind of like letters to the editor.
Braisted has a political blog, so I thought it was really interesting that he said blogging was a poor medium for activism. He called it an effective avenue for engaging the political classes, but was less sold on a blogger’s ability to make broad grassroots change.
At other times, he talked about blogging as being like a more effective letter to the editor, since he could guarantee for himself that it would be published. He seems to understand blogging as a way for people who traditionally have a weak public voice to be heard by politicians and the mainstream media, but he feels it’s not a successful platform for people to bark down orders from on high.
You can read about the entire event at Pith In The Wind.