January 12, 2005
eDemocrats and eDemocracy
GUEST: Jack O'Toole
In 1994, when that ... that ... Internet thing was just starting to enter the public consciousness in a major way (and PoliticsOnline was still mostly a gleam in Phil Noble's eye), the vast majority of Democratic party activists couldn't have spelled the DNC chairman's name if you'd spotted them the "Davi" and the "ilhelm." Today, virtually every major candidate for the job has a professionally produced website aimed squarely at the party's grassroots, and one (South Carolina native Donnie Fowler) has even started Podcasting to the masses, with the rest almost certain to follow.
That kind of change in only a decade isn't just remarkable, it's revolutionary. And you can bet that we'll be saying the same thing about the changes we're going to see in the next ten years. Because, as the online response to the humanitarian crisis in South Asia has now made clear to us all, this eDemocracy revolution is just getting started.
UPDATE/RELATED: Via Blogswarm, here's DNC hopeful Simon Rosenberg's nine-point plan to "blogify" the Democratic party.
Posted by Jack O'Toole at January 12, 2005 09:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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