{"id":346,"date":"2006-07-19T17:19:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=346"},"modified":"2006-07-19T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T16:19:36","slug":"participating-a-democratizing-activity-in-blog-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Participating, a democratizing activity in blog space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article <a href=\"http:\/\/citmedia.org\/learn\/surveys\/collaborativenews.htm\">The Hype<br \/>\nvs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and<br \/>\nthe Future of News<\/a> . Brought up some interesting ideas when blog space becomes a democratizing element in politics, traditional party politics loose power and control of the discussion. It&#8217;s no wonder that blogs have resulted in much consternation of the reigning Irish political party. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, is it no wonder that the most practical defense of the status quo in Irish (and worldwide) politics is to prevent broadband adoption. Less talk, less action translates to less access to Blogs, and the Internet for information and dialog means less pressure to adopt radical ideas in the political arena, like working for the public good, instead of against it.<\/p>\n<p>A radical idea like <b>participation<\/b> is a political poison pill. <\/p>\n<p>No Blogs, no participation. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of News . Brought up some interesting ideas when blog space becomes a democratizing element in politics, traditional party politics loose power and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=346\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Participating, a democratizing activity in blog space<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,7,13,8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-freedom","category-internet","category-ireland","category-politics","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}