Political Power and the Internet: An Update
June 2, 2006 — disembedded
There is wonderful news today about Glenn Greenwald, which also represents yet another sign of the growing, persuasive influence of writers on the internet. On the same day of the announcement that Andrew Sullivan’s daily social/political commentaries on his blog, The Daily Dish, had reached over 2,000,000 readers during May, it also was reported that Greenwald’s book, How Would a Patriot Act, has just made the New York Times’ Best-Seller List. In addition, his book is now within the Top-100 of all books presently being sold by Amazon.com. Greenwald is a writer who has mainly reached a readership through his blog, Unclaimed Territory.
Background notes describe Greenwald as a constitutional law attorney and widely-read political blogger. He has written for American Conservative Magazine and appeared on a variety of television and radio programs, including C-Span’s Washington Journal, Air America’s Majority Report and Public Radio International’s To the Point. His reporting and political analyses have been credited in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Salon, Slate and a variety of other print and online publications.
Readers Online:
June 10, 2006 at 6:08 pm
[...] I have written elsewhere about the claims made by some bloggers about the pervasive dominance of the internet (based upon issues of power and control), the increasing influence of writers on the internet, politics on the internet and the potential political power of the internet. Today, an article in The New York Times has described The YearlyKos bloggers convention currently being held in Las Vegas. The following extract from that article provides an account of this very large gathering of bloggers: [...]