The Huffing-stuff post?
Posted on 11/25/2008 4:34:27 AM PST by Amelia
Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported an important effect of the 2008 presidential campaign: For the first time, traffic at left-leaning political Web sites overtook traffic at right-leaning competitors. The Drudge Report and Free Republic had the largest number of unique visitors in September 2007, but in September 2008, that honor went to the Huffington Post.
Political strategists have been analyzing the impact of the Internet on American political communication since at least the mid-1990s.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I should note that the first paragraph doesn’t sound very complimentary but the rest of the article is.
You mean what we do here actually matters?
I thought this was a RPG!
The Left has nothing on the internet without George Soros.
The Huffing-stuff post?
I wonder how much money Soros is spending with HuffPo? It seems the left only wins when they either cheat or buy their way using rich liberals to pay for their success.
Did you see this? Talks about FR as the granddaddy of political sites, with the best software and a more grassroots approach than most sites...
Loved this part:
“Democratic Underground copied Free Republic....”
LOL
The Huffington Post....pfftt..
Bump
Otherwise Huffington has always been able to bounce me out after a couple of posts. Now they can't.
I'd suggest that a whole big bunch of their new traffic (a good 35% at last look) came from "our side" of the aisle. The guys at Huffington found they had to take their whines about my posts directly back to me at yahoo.com and boy did that make them mad. One young fellow/gal was crying about me "persecuting Arianna" and asked "why don't you just leave us alone".
Who’d a thunk it? :-)
Don't forget "...but with less powerful architecture."
What I thought was most interesting was:
Notably, the right has adopted the Wikipedia method more consistently than the left. MoveOn employs the top-down structure, as does the Huffington Post. Daily Kos blends the grass-roots and hierarchical methods...One can't help wondering whether the right's more successful use of such self-organizing systems reflects the concrete impact of libertarian ideology.
I think it's interesting that the right tends to be less top-down, even though the left claims to be more egalitarian.
Did you read anything other than the excerpt?
I’m mentally preparing myself for another FR overload and crash.
And the number of interesting non-political posts (science, arts, sports, literature) has almost flatlined since the Great Giuliani Purge. Causation? I dunno.....
I hadn’t thought about the downside of good publicity...
They restrict posting pretty heavily, eh?
I’ve never actually visited the site.
There are basically two kinds of influential political Web sites: sites that use a top-down hierarchy, whereby a central organization develops a message and disseminates it using social-networking technology, and sites that use a Wikipedia-type method, in which thousands of individual users contribute content and drive the message. This latter approach is exactly the opposite of conspiratorial.The earliest and most powerful right-leaning Web site, Free Republic, used the non-hierarchical method. Free Republic developed innovative Internet architecture to build a sort of Wikipedia of citizenship, a do-it-yourself kit for spreading messages and connecting them with local, face-to-face activism. The site's discussion lists -- which have global reach -- are fed by participants and connected by those participants to a plethora of state message boards organizing real-time, boots-on-the-ground political action. The influence of the site reflects the power of self-organizing social phenomena, not a conspiracy.
Notably, the right has adopted the Wikipedia method more consistently than the left. MoveOn employs the top-down structure, as does the Huffington Post. Daily Kos blends the grass-roots and hierarchical methods. Democratic Underground copied Free Republic's grass-roots approach, but with less powerful architecture. One can't help wondering whether the right's more successful use of such self-organizing systems reflects the concrete impact of libertarian ideology.
Aye, and it’s by our 2007 nemesis, Danielle Allen, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
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