Comments on: Effective blogging (part 2): local left blogs for local left people

By: Netroots 1.5 « Though Cowards Flinch

Netroots 1.5 « Though Cowards Flinch — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:54:08 +0000

[...] project aim is to build on some of the ideas originally set out here about developing radical local new media, initially offline but with specific measures around [...]

By: Credit and credibility « Though Cowards Flinch

Credit and credibility « Though Cowards Flinch — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:03:27 +0000

[...] to and control of the mass media, but we have to start somewhere. That’s where this comes back in……….(to be continued) Possibly related posts: (automatically [...]

By: The McDonnell supremacy « Though Cowards Flinch

The McDonnell supremacy « Though Cowards Flinch — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:56:12 +0000

[...] prepared to go beyond the confines of electioneering and get involved in wider socialist activity either as propagandists or organizational activists, or [...]

By: Labour’s leadership and Left Futures « Though Cowards Flinch

Labour’s leadership and Left Futures « Though Cowards Flinch — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:54:35 +0000

[...] my problem is in failing, as Paul and I have been accused of, to correctly identify the methods of Web 2.0. The point, on such a reading, is merely to provide [...]

By: Cameron’s community organizers: an initial assessment « Though Cowards Flinch

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:26:46 +0000

[...] later: wantonly gleeful ‘in your face’ response to those who trolled this post about the costs of media-initiated ‘community organising’, and how to go about it. [...]

By: Nick Cohen’s half empty glass « Though Cowards Flinch

Nick Cohen’s half empty glass « Though Cowards Flinch — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:32:00 +0000

[...] to develop small/medium scale social enterprises, something I suspect Nick’s never done. Here’s my own ’glass half full’ assessment from last half month: We need a method for blog [...]

By: Effective local blogging (3): creating the interface between Habermasian ‘lifeworld’ and anti-hegemonic narrative « Though Cowards Flinch

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:44:01 +0000

[...] thinker to waste time reading the right wing blogosphere. I have, however, been made aware that my previous post on the development of the leftwing blogopshere did meet with some criticism from that benighted [...]

By: Dave Semple

Dave Semple — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:34:34 +0000

Nice to see another moron turn up armed only with blithe assertions.

If you actually want answers to your question, might I suggest you have a look around the articles linked to in the OP.

By: Richard Manns

Richard Manns — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:32:03 +0000

Your list of requirements is the reason why left-wing blogging has failed (thus far).

Simply put, why do you need all this organisation and money when the right didn’t, and still doesn’t?

What is special about left-wingers that means that you need all that, when the right-wing bloggers didn’t, are beating you in the fight for readers, and mostly vehemently rail against such centralised funding and control?

By: Dave Semple

Dave Semple — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:04:38 +0000

I suggest you look up the definition of ideological, Morgan.

And on several points in your tirade above, you misinterpret and ignore what has actually been written. On that basis I see no point in engaging with you, whatever political tradition you previously or currently hail from.