Pinkie’s Realm

Bringing things back to the political aspect of blogging, I read 2 interviews in Kline and Burstein’s Blog! which, once more, discuss political side of internet communication. The first interview (”Sex, Lies, and Political Scrapes”) was an interview with Ana Marie Cox, the creator behind Wonkette, and the second interview (”Blogging the Presidency”) was with Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the creator of DailyKos. Both of these blogs are fairly controversial, but for different reasons. Even in the interviews they talk about what they are each influenced by. Cox emphasizes writing freely to express her sense of humor, and her passion for writing about sex scandals and whatever she finds funny in the government administration. Zuniga, on the other hand, works tirelessly to get people back into citizenship and has aided bloggers in accomplishing great things in politics. For instance, forcing the resignation fo Senator Trent Lott, after exposing the fraudulent documents at the heart of CBS 60 Minutes story on President Bush’s national guard career, and then even contributing ideas and slogans to both candidates’ campaign speeches, and mobilizing millions of party activists to raise money and get people to the polls. I think he is much more passionate for politics and the government itself and the wellbeing of our nation and it’s people. It’s hard to compare the two blogs because they’re both so different when it comes down to the heart of each blog. They’re both easy to look at and read, many links and pictures, and are both informative and interesting…however, if I was ever to consider using one of these blogs for purposes other than entertainment (like influencing my voting decision) I would without a doubt turn to Zuniga’s DailyKos. Not that I don’t enjoy Wonkette and would read it for fun, I would just trust Zuniga’s judgement since he cares so intensely about the war and the government’s (and the media’s) injustices.