The federal Liberal's renewal commission will be "considering and recommending" the organization of blogger conference calls - where party politicians reach out to Grit bloggers. This, according to the commission's Internet policy chair Mark Podlasly. In an interview last night on Public Eye Radio, Mr. Podlasly also said his taskforce, which starts meeting later this week, will be reaching out to the Liblogs community for more ideas on how the party can best exploit "the full democratic potential" of the Internet, noting he will soon be getting in contact with the group's founder Jason Cherniak. Mr. Podlasly, a graduate of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, explained he became involved with the commission because he wants to see the growth of Web-based organizations like MoveOn.org in Canada.
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So how would time wasting blogs help the democracy in Canada? Blog are just opinion, not much more.
Don't need education at the Kennedy School of Government to figure that one out.
Moveon.org? Are they not an American group? Liberals wanting to get closer to the US? Say it ain't so.
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The renewal commission's proposals for developing web-based public engagement tools represent an extraordinary opportunity to democratize, broaden and deepen participation in policy discussions within a party that has governed Canada for a good part of the past century and very likely will do so again in the future. Internet tools like CivicSpace and WikiMedia, podcasts, and citizen-made documentaries rock the house. We are about to witness a re-invigoration of democracy in Canada.
Doesn't matter how you mow it.....
Turf is still turf.
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