So, what are we supposed to do?? I work about 5 miles away from YouTube's corporate offices in San Bruno. Am I supposed to drive up there on my lunch hour, demand to see "those in charge", and then further demand that they restore all Makin video's to their site, and furthermore stop supressing Conservative/Christian thought?? I don't know how much good that would do (actually, I do!!). It might get me arrested, even if I remain peaceful and reasonable the entire time.
Or, perhaps I could drive a few miles south to Moutain View, march into google's HQ and demand similar even-handed treatment for consevatives. It would do about as much good as trying to stop a hurricane by waving a bedsheet at it.
I appreciate your warnings, but even if we buy into what you are saying 100%, what can we do to stop it??
Z
I'm of the opinion that our side has to engage web 2.0. In a frontal assault against lefty strongholds like Youtube, google, digg, or boing-boing, we would get creamed. I think an attack on the flank would have more impact. I posted a link to a relatively new and small 2.0 network called NowPublic, that just might be that exposed flank, so to speak, that the Right can use to get in the game
Think about this: Let's say you find a great news article that you want your fellow FReepers to read and comment on. You post your article, and respond to the comments, and learn more about the subject as other members add their expertise on the subject at hand, right?
NowPublic is similar, except that it interacts with other readers, and other networks. You asked me "what can we do?" I'm saying this: continue to post your articles on FR. But take an extra 45 seconds to also post the news article to NowPublic Web 2.0. The goal is not to beat the libs at what is essentially their own game. Nope. I'm just saying we can steal 1 of the top 5 daily news stories from the lefties and put it in our column. We will continue to have another of the top 5 stories from our present talk radio/A-list blogger model. But, that small change in the daily news cycle will have a significant impact on public opinion, I think. And, if it is only a small impact, well let me ask you, how close were the races in last week's election? Wouldn't a 1 or 2 point swing in the vote made a dramatic difference?
And, that's all I'm trying to get my fellow right bloggers to do, just think about it, and be willing to entertain a new concept.
regards,
>nuke
HERE is a link to the premiere Web 2.0 Mashup site, called popurls. Scroll down to the section on "Now Public". If you see an article called "Ten Things I Hate About Democrats", that is my article. I didn't do anything with this post that I haven't done in my blogging career with the one exception of posting it to Now Public. This post is now going out to networks all over the world.
I hope this illustrates what I've been trying to say. And the beauty of it is that anyone can post to NowPublic, and increase the impact of a specific newstory exponentially.