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It's election time in Canada ... where are the party blogs?

by Tris Hussey at 12:05PM (PST) on December 7, 2005 | Permanent Link |

Here in Canada we're in the midst of a federal election. The Parliament was dissolved a bit ago and the campaign is starting to get going (sort of a semi-start since the Holiday Season is going to come in the middle of the campaign towards the late-January election).

After the success of blogs in the American Presidential election, one might think Canadian Federal parties would wise up to this. Think again. They are totally missing the boat.

There should be great, witty, partisan blogs on each of the official party websites and links to un-official (but supportive) blogs too. How about a nice OPML file of all the blogs supporting a particular party? That would be cool.

Politics is like business in many, many ways. Blogs work for this so well. Personal opinion, passion, wit, clever writing. This yells "Blog me!".

Mathew Ingram of the Globe and Mail has a review of the main party websites. Only one kinda has a blog, but all are really missing the boat. Here's the intro to the article ...

A few years ago, a political party might have been able to get away with a fairly static presence on the Internet -- a boring website with some stale speeches, candidate bios, and so on -- but not any more.
Now, people want "Web 2.0," and that means blogs, podcasts, video, RSS feeds and all kinds of interactive hoo-ha.

So, would I blog for a political party? Sure, not for free, but sure. Which one? Well that would be telling ;-).

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Re: It's election time in Canada ... where are the party blogs?

by Anonymous on Wed 07 Dec 2005 12:23 PM PST | Permanent Link

I blame Karl Rove

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