Markos Moulitsas Zuniga makes a powerful case for the blogosphere at the DailyKos convention. I think what he says demonstrates that what is happening now is far more significant than what we old-punkers did with zines. Still, I’d do it over again if I had to.
Think Progress » Last night at the YearlyKos convention,:
[Before the blogosphere arose,] people like me could spend hours talking about politics, but it mattered little in the greater scheme of things. Then technology changed everything.
Whether it was blogs, or podcasting, or social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, or MoveOn, or YouTube, people quickly adopted myriad communication technologies emerging from the web and turned them to political purposes. Millions did so.
And while individually we were still nobodies, together, we became … somebody. A very important somebody. And that makes some people very uncomfortable.
Like David Broder. Joe Klein. Robert Novak. Bill O’Reilly
Echoing what so many of his colleagues think, Bill Kristol on Fox News was outraged that anyone would take us seriously. He called me a, ” left-wing blogger who was not respectable three or four years ago.”
And he was right. In their world, I wasn’t “respectable”. None of us were. As our good friend Atrios likes to say, We weren’t “very serious people.”
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