[Alumni-chat] Antioch Republicans!

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About Blogging -- and why I encourage Antiochians to engage.  
 
David said...
 
"I was interested to learn of  your blog writing.  I know very little about 
that, how it works, where it  is, etc.  I'm not up to date about so much 
technological, but I marvel and  admire people like you who ARE up to date.
 
I'm very interested in  transmission of visual material over the internet,  
TV and video  communications sent directly and freely.  In the "post literate" 
world we  increasingly live in, visual communication techniques will be 
increasingly  important...are now."
 
I have found lots of Antiochians among the bloggers  -- and I really 
recommend that more Antiochians get involved.  
 
There is nothing particularly technical about it --  it is about getting 
involved in discussions, and we are (given our DNA)   pretty good at  that.  
 
Everyone has their particular take on the process --  on how you establish an 
identity and how you develop a discourse around core  ideas.  
 
And yes, Bloggers have pretty grand ideas about where  we are going.  Among 
other things, Reform the Press and Media,  change  the rules for politics and 
all -- of course not much of it will work out, but  some will, and this is 
where progressive stuff will be invented in the next few  years.  
 
If you haven't read Firedoglake, particularly how we  raised the money to put 
a live blogger into the Courtroom for the Libby Trial  (along with the usual 
MSM),   How we came to know more about that case  than even the Lawyers, and 
why the Federal Judge read our stuff and said we  deserved seats in the 
Journalist section more than the Times or the  Post.   -- Part of the process of 
either reform or revolution is doing  stuff like this.   And yes, really soon it 
will be video blogging  along with text blogging.  But the key is that Bloggers 
worth anything at  all, add content.  We hav e knowledge and ways of 
understanding beyond the  kin of the Journalists of today -- that is the key.  And 
lots of people  want that extra added stuff.  For the Libby Trial our assets were 
a Film  Producer, a PHD in comparative literature, with a speciality in 
pre-1989 E.  European resistance literature, a psychologist  and a former W. 
Virginia  State Prosecutor   who knows a thing or two about Constitutional  Law.    
No Media outfit had that kind of  combination.    So please start reading, and 
join us.    One way or another it will be the next new thing.  
 
Firedoglake has a blogroll, and so does the place I  more or less blog, The 
Next Hurrah.  Just start reading and get a name you  can use across several 
blogs -- and establish an identity.    It  isn't technical, it is about wanting 
to participate in whatever the outcome will  be.  
 
 




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