NicoleLa and Rox Populi in front of us. This one is more formal and has many more people.
I'm high on all the smart women around. Also realizing that I can't even think. I am so used to being alone when blogging all day that it is totally odd to be with all these people. Forget that I have to actually say something every now and then, rather than simply snorting at other people's good comments.
Everyone tap tap tappitying away in this room. Cool.
Women can "make it personal." Dissent about this statement.
Women political bloggers: parroting what the Big Men are saying? How can we break out of the power stucture, the echo chambers (blue and red) and make sure a variety of voices can be heard?
A right-wing blogger, Nicole, a black woman. What does that particular person THINK about the news. Conservative blogs all reporting on the same thing each day. How boring that is to her.
Rox. YEAH baby, go. "The parrotsphere gets you links."
Politics on a Philosophical Level.
Interesting that a second discussion is actually taking place on all the computers around us. No one will talk because we are all taking part in that discussion. Hee.
How to get accurate information on a blog. How people could break things down in a way they can understand. But it would be great to have more voices and more information. Rox: is the blogosphere self-correcting?
Nicole: "Don't be anonymous bloggers. It annoys me." (?!) Can't do it if you are anonymous, it is going to come out eventually. Your opinion comes from who you are. Do you look like your opinion? Interesting coming from a young black woman.
Nicole: "Hostile work environment of the blogosphere." Hint of dissent toward anything they will start swearing at people, particularly white guys. "Anne Coulter is disgusting. she needs a sandwich." Engage message and not the people, she exhorts us.
Take the microphone away from that man right now.
> the echo chambers (blue and red) and make
> sure a variety of voices can be heard?
I see that you're liveblogging this panel.
I'm actually working on this very issue with http://www.echochamberproject.com
My film is about how the media became an echo chamber to the countdown towards war, but it's also designed to overcome the echo chambers within the political blogosphere.
I think it'll take finding a common goal that everyone can share, dropping the grasp of political paradigms of having the "right answer," and building coalitions to work together and tap into the collective wisdom of the entire crowd.
Anyway, just some thoughts...
Posted by: Kent Bye | July 30, 2005 at 11:34 AM