When someone calling himself "John Kerry" posted a diary on the
popular liberal community blog DailyKos last week, its members reacted
with both suspicion and amazement.
Some immediately welcomed Kerry to the community, expressing pleasant
surprise that the Massachusetts senator would take part in "our little
progressive group blog."
Others, however, were
more skeptical. They found it hard to imagine that Kerry himself had
posted on DailyKos, since it could have been one of the senator’s
staffers or even a random person using the senator’s name.
But before long, the site’s owner, Markos Moulitsas, posted a comment confirming that the diary
was legitimate. All told, Kerry’s post received 1,219 comments, many
friendly and many from members of the community still angry at the 2004
Democratic presidential nominee for losing the election to George W.
Bush.
Some have gone the whole nine yards and allow readers to publish
responses to their musings. Other aren’t there yet.
Just a year ago, a DailyKos posting from someone like John Kerry would
have been all but unheard of, and blogging of any kind by members of
Congress was almost nonexistent. But now that dynamic is starting to
change, and slowly, members of the House of Representatives and the
Senate are beginning to appreciate the value of blogs.
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