The left’s tools for thought
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 12:08 pm on 1/14/2005
So I went to Democracy for America‘s web site, looking for a community. I mean, there supposedly was one, right? There was this community of well-sync’ed-up Dean volunteers who used the Internet effectively and blah blah blah. So I go look, and there’s no community. There’s a fairly generic activist-organization brochure. There’s nothing that feels like it has people in it.
Ah, but it leads to Blog for America! Surely there’s an active, interconnected community of progressive blogs hosted here! …Nope. Try again. There’s a somewhat dry group blog of Howard Dean-ish insiders, and a blogroll on the left side of the page, mostly comprising things that aren’t blogs. Where is this community I heard so much about… or maybe imagined?
Aha! DeanSpa… oh… wait. They took it down. They took it down and replaced it with a “coming soon” message. And apparently all it ever was was a version of some community software you could use for… your local group.
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