Movable Type and the ability to add, schedule and setup Comments on Weblogs seems to have been the 'Great Leap Forward' for the Howard Dean blog. Commenters began to see themselves as Bloggers and the site hits (etc.) began to take off.
Ben Harris (of Ben's Head) is a big fan of the political-Weblog-gambit. I'm not sure if I get it. I like the communication angle, but I'm just not sure.
For the DNC blog, there are 18 'approved' bloggers. When each one submits an article (to a 'private' blog) the rest have 1 hour to review and comment before it goes live. Unless their legal objects, all postings go up but viewers/reviewers have the option to suggest changes and edits. This seems like a very interesting model for publication
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