The Emergence of Progressive Bloggers

To follow up on a post I did earlier this week on the NPI. Chris Bowers of MyDD and Matthew Stoller of Blogging of the President have just published their report entitled Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere.

I haven't read the whole thing yet, but sco over at .08 has a very excellent write up of it. This is a particularly on-point snippet:

I'm going to commit a bit of an Internet faux pas and reproduce the entire Appendix I from the full report in the vain hope that someone involved with a 2005 or 2006 campaign will notice and help us help them develop the Massachusetts progressive blogosphere. As more and more people get access to the Internet, it will be more important for candidates and advocacy groups to get involved. Local bloggers are going to be important for spreading messages that large national blogs aren't going to be interested in.

Not only are local progressive bloggers good for focussing in on local issues that national blogs aren't going to cover, local bloggers are covering local issues in-depth that our own local media, just doesn't cover as well.

As this election season gets more fully underway, it will be interesting to see what candidates and advocacy groups reach out to the local progressive blogsphere, and what, if any, effect that has on the outcome of the election.