Berkeley blogger (Daily Kos) finds his voice and fends off success

[Kadie]

Berkeley blogger finds his voice and fends off success
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Three years ago, 50 friends and family members were the only ones reading Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's liberal blog www.dailykos.com. Now that 600,000 politics junkies are alighting daily on what's become the nation's most popular political blog, the inevitable is happening.

The Berkeley resident says he's "getting flacked to death" -- solicited by political consultants who know that a blessing on Daily Kos can bring their candidate as much as $50,000 in online donations within days, plus street credibility among its opinionated activists. Moulitsas can expect more suitors in the next few weeks as the book he has co-authored, "Crashing the Gate," introduces the boyish, fast-talking 34-year-old to mainstream audiences.

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This summer, the kid who regularly got beat up in high school for being a 110-pound nerd with a Spanish accent will host the first Yearly Kos convention in Las Vegas. The headliner addressing this in-person gathering of the blog's faithful: Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Moulitsas is not a pundit nor a strategist, and he doesn't want to be a spokesman for a new generation known as "the netroots" -- the Internet-connected activists who got involved in politics in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that decided the 2000 presidential election.

more...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/04/05/MNGHSI3N5S1.DTL


podcast available here...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=5&entry_id=3951

[xultar]

1. I like how DU Admins handle things. I like the fact they don't push

a candidate and let the posters duke it out. I like the fact we support DEMOCRATS period.

I guess that is the difference between a Blog and a Forum community. When DU makes the news it is about DU as a community and I like that.
If I'm wrong fire away.