Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Jerome Armstrong at Powell’s
Surprisingly contentious crowd – “third party” questions come up a lot
Markos is asked about building blog traffic – “You, blogging to your immediate friends and family have a much larger impact then I do, blogging to millions.”
I’d never thought of it before in that way. My family all reads my blog, but probably only my dad has ever heard of DailyKos or MyDD. My sister and brother-in-law have never heard of Kos at all. Out of my friends, only Ken really reads political blogs – OK, he rarely reads my blog, too, but since we agree on politics that’s OK. 🙂 I can motivate my friends to participate when needed, especially my non-political friends because I know the issues they care about, and I only ask them to participate when it’s something that they would see as important. So there’s trust – I’m not just blindly asking them to send money or call all the time, like they’re an ATM or robo-caller.