The Revolution *Will* Be Digitized.

Think about it.  It’s all well and good when 10,000 march down the street in favor of a cause.  It will turn some heads and probably garner thirty seconds of air time on a local TV station.

That being said, what happens when 10,000 like-minded activists make full use of web-based tools?

The average Facebook user has 130 friends.  If 10,000 activists were to post the same article to their wall, that potentially exposes it to upwards of 1.3 million people. 

If 10,000 activists were to Tweet the same topic on Twitter, it would likely shove it to the top of the Trending list, and that would get the attention of those talking heads on CNN who pay close attention to the site.

What would happen if 10,000 activists emailed a journalist or politician in a brief period of time?  Or flooded a comment thread on usatoday.com?

What would happen if it were 100,000 activists?

The MSM looks to the web more and more for trending content to get people’s attention.  Progressive activists need to take full advantage of the concept of “collective broadcasting” to get their message out there.

The story about PBS cited above is exactly the same as NPR (“No Problems for Republicans”).  I heard one yesterday about ACORN’s problems and they kept talking about the O’Keefe videos, with never single word about them being faked and about O’Keefe being a phony and a felon.  That’s the reason I never send a penny to any NPR or PBS station; they seem to think they have to bend over backwards to please people who are going to hate them anyway.

Good points, Rdale. Bonnie Erbé is another reason I don’t give PBS a dime.

That is disappointing. Chicago Tonight usually does a much better job of balancing the panel. Phil Ponce loses points with me—even if he was nice to me when I was on the show.

And Betty, Erbe is indeed reason enough to keep my pennies for more deserving organizations than PBS. And Juan Williams? Please.

I think continued ridicule is good enough.  It only has to go mainstream once for the teabaggers to lose credibility forever.

Honestly, I think the ultimate downfall of the teabaggers will occur when one (or more) of them inevitably turns to violence due to rage.* It’s really only a matter of time. How it will happen and who the victim(s) will be is anyone’s guess.

* No, Stack doesn’t count.

Honestly, I think the ultimate downfall of the teabaggers will occur when one (or more) of them inevitably turns to violence due to rage.* It’s really only a matter of time. How it will happen and who the victim(s) will be is anyone’s guess.

* No, Stack doesn’t count.

Agreed!  I’ve been saying pretty much the same thing for quite some time. 

Right now, I think the violent factions of the rabid right are being tempered down by their “hopes” of winning in the 2010 elections. Once those elections have subsided, I worry that the violent fringe will be back on the upswing in 2011. That doesn’t preclude, of course, some of these unhinged folks snapping well before then.

Allow me to the third the notion.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—when these guys lose it at the 2012 Repub Covention, watch as “concerned citizens” becomes “dangerous extremists” with nary a blink of the eye. 

Of course, don’t expect any of the punditocracy to ADMIT they’ve changed their opinions.  That would take actual integrity instead of pretend integrity.