The Republican Congress would be well served if the RNC established and staffed an information gathering center that queried and drew on the resources of the conservative bloggers to generate briefs and summary analysis for Congressional staff members.
Bonilla is being kind
The entire country would be well served if agencies like FEMA, Homeland Security, and the Military had active internet/blog analysts in direct communication pipelines with the chain of command during crisis events. There is nothing else to match this resource of thousands and thousands of eyes/ears on the ground, plus gobs of intelligent insight from national and international experts and plain old smart folks. And I fear the government is trying to manage disasters the old way, as if none of this info was right there at their fingertips. They will continue to look dumber and dumber if they don't get with the program on this, and more lives and property than necessary will continue to be lost. I don't see the internet as a panacea, but it is clearly a new and powerful tool that cannot be ignored in these situations.