| The Obama campaign is unique in the amount of energy and innovation that it has spawned on the web: people like Farouk Olu Aregbe and Tamer Abouzeid who changed the way people think about the Facebook; Meredith Segal, who in 2006 founded the Facebook group that was to become the official student wing of Obama's campaign; citizen ad creators like lovingj; independent bloggers like sagereader of Think on These Things; assorted Kossacks and MyDD diarists; and, yes, Phillip de Vellis and Joe Anthony. But until now, all of these independent efforts have lacked a central meeting place. There hasn't been a central blogroll or a place to recognize those efforts. Sponsored by and affiliated with the Facebook group One Million Strong for Barack, One Million Strong was founded with three main goals in mind: 1. To serve as a gathering place for Obama supporters in the blogosphere.
2. To bridge the gap between the blogosphere and the energy for Obama on the Facebook.
3. To provide a forum for discussion of progressive policy, politics, and activism.
Mapping the Obama Blogosphere While there have been some previous efforts to set up blogrolls, we'd like to develop the most thorough and engaging --- the most useful --- blogroll of active Obama supporter blogs on the web. I will also be doing regular round-ups of news and commentary on Obama's campaign around the blogosphere. More than that, I hope to review and profile various bloggers and online grassroots efforts. If there are active blogs that we've missed, please feel free to add a comment in this thread or to send us an email at admin@onemillionstrong.us. Feel free, of course, to crosspost your blog entries here in the diaries. Let others know what you're working on. Make yourself at home. Help Us Be Helpful Lastly, this is meant to be a community resource. That means that if you have any suggestions about additional features, about our mission or about the direction of this blog, please feel free to leave your comments. We want to know how we can be more helpful. Second, however, that also means that there is a communal responsibility to keep the discussion threads clean and respectful, to be just and responsible in our criticism of other candidates. Excessive bashing of Obama or the Democratic Party will not be tolerated. Anyway, welcome to One Million Strong! Let me know if you have any questions. |
