Why I love blog software: BloggerStorm and Iowa Caucus News on the Ground
Jan 16th, 2004 by jimmoore
BloggerStorm (Dean for America) Iowa Caucus News on the Ground (Berkman) Perfect Storm” volunteer campaign in
Iowa. Matt was inspired by the Feedster site that ran during
BloggerCon. We jumped around the corner to the webteam area, and
recruited Joe Rospars into the conversation. We soon had specd
out a sort of instant Feedster site, Joe got ahold of two
volunteers in the DeanSpace community, Rick Klau and Alden Hines, and later in the day we had BloggerStorm up and running.
I drove back to my home near Boston, and arrived around midnight.
I decided it would be fun to add a non-partisan site covering the last
weekend of the Iowa caucus process. My blog, like BloggerStorm, would draw on sources from bloggers on the
ground.
Just after midnight I started messing around in Manila (thanks Dave). By 12:41 (see the time stamp on the first post) I had the “Iowa Caucus News on the Ground“
blog up and running. By about 1:00 AM the first few RSS feeds
were in, the site looked pretty good, and I phoned Joe Rospars in
Burlington to take a look.
Now I am merrily surfing Iowa blogs, and adding those with RSS feeds.
Unfortunately some of the fun ones don’t seem to have feeds. For
example, An Iowa Libertarian writing about topics ranging from Des Moines Register editorials to Sabine Herald, the French political activist. And from Cedar Pundit comes this irreverent review of the Rob Reiner and Martin Sheen endorsement of Dean in Cedar Rapids.
If you are going to be participating in the Iowa caucuses, or if you
are blogging them, let me know so I can consider your blog for Iowa
Caucus News. jmoore at cyber.law.harvard.edu
Please mark the subject: Iowa blog. I’m going to
try to work for balance, though I’m sure I won’t be able to satisfy all
readers. And I can’t guarantee I will have time to look at all
the submissions–because it’s going to be a big exhausting marathon
weekend at DFA. But please send anyway, because if and when I do
have time, I’d love to hear from you.
Perhaps the best we can hope for is this weekend is to have some fun,
and get a sense of the action by way of a few writers we will get to know…