It’s still going to take some time for the use of these tools to become more legit and have even more effect, but here’s an interesting shift from last night’s elections:
Blogs of all political stripes spent most of yesterday detailing reports of voting machine malfunctions and ballot shortages, effectively becoming an online national clearinghouse of the polling problems that still face the election system. And in a new twist this year, many bloggers buttressed their accounts of electoral shenanigans with links to videos posted on the video Web site YouTube.
Certainly there is room for abuse, but it’s pretty amazing to me the potential as citizen journalism continues to expand.
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Will,
I think that all of the discussion and gnashing of teeth over a lack of authoritative and unbiased reporting about local, national, and world events is causing a huge void. If this is true, I’m curious about what might fill it. Nature hates a void!