A Revolution?

I've been trying to get some resources in line before advertising this blog, and the best I have found so far is an online report, The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0.

From the very first graf of the introduction:

Moving Toward Citizen Engagement in a Virtual Age

Writing in Foreign Policy, Drezner and Farrell (2004) hit upon an amazing reality of modern life. Today, unlike at any time in the advance of history, people simply no longer need to leave their houses to participate in a revolution. With the advent of new technologies, new means can be used to foster online engagement, in both the individual and collective sense, and to create new dialogues between
government and citizens (Reece, 2006).

The thing runs 98 pages and showcases many examples of blogging. I was quite happy to see a list of mayors who blog, because I am trying to build a list of elected officials who blog. I immediately dived in to add the blogs that were listed individually to my list of links.

The thing I find interesting is that more than half of the links are gone ... and that's only a year after the report came out. What this tells me is that there is a lot of turnover among elected officials, which of course is not a surprise, but also a lot of turnover in blogging. Why, I wonder? Looking forward to learning more about the whole topic.