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Jim Buie's Blog: Electronic Democracy

I'm linking to Jim Buie's Blog partly for the article, suggesting that if Al Gore could harness the netroots infrastructure built up by the Howard Dean Experience he could garner tremendous support.

I'm also noticing Jim's "Recent Comments" sidebar, and thinking that's a great idea when starting up a blog. It makes any willing commenters front and centre (well, left of centre) which is far more appealing than simply being buried in a tiny link at the end of the post. Blogs with the comments buried have a hard time starting up because there's a heavy "is this weird?" feeling when you post a comment to an empty blog. The publicity of a front-page comment section would greatly encourage participation. I like it.