Two recent unrelated online events show two different approaches to web politics.
On the bright side we have the Catalan president, Pasqual Maragall who just opened his weblog a few hours ago. Not his presidential website but a personal weblog (although the fact that it’s published in Catalan, Spanish, Galician and Basque suggests that he’s blogging with a little presidential help).
Anyway, as a blogger (and a proto-blogger) I’d like to give our president a warm welcome to the blogosphere and encourage him to go beyond the first month of blogging (that’s as far as most blogs go).
On the dark side of the story we have U.S. Rep Marty Meehan. He had members of his staff edit his Wikipedia bio in order to remove any criticisms. In total, more than one thousand Wikipedia edits in various articles have been traced back to congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six months in a kind of Orwellian history rewriting.
Pasqual Maragall, President of Catalonia blog
Wikipedia news on the Meehan alterations (Spanish)
CBS story on Meehan wikipedia alterations.
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