[lbo-talk] Kos on Marches

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at epinet.org>
-Right.  Kos gets huge traffic, like a tv network or mass circulation
-newspaper.  As Nathan says, he's opened up a new source of funding.
-These are major achievements, not least because the technology allows
-for more active, real-time participation than television or print.  But
-the numbers of those who post is much smaller.  More interesting than
-what the Kos site is is what it might become.

And most of those who go to a meeting don't talk.  But you still have 
thousands of people posting every day in various discussion threads, which 
is quite an amazing amount of participation.

The fact that Kos has such a high circulation in a site that is partisan and 
organizing-focused is what makes it especially interesting.

Yes I agree that what Kos et all will become is even more interesting, but 
the point is that part of what's interesting about it now is that it is 
collapsing the simple distinction between a media outlet and an organizing 
site.

Nathan