A splendid resource
Here's something that I'm sure a few of you will find an interesting resource: the new dKosopedia, a Wiki created by members of the Daily Kos community that's intended to be a resource of information about US politics.
I've not gone too deep into it, so I'm sure there's stuff in there for you to complain about should you want to look for it (but it's a Wiki, so you can also change it should you wish) but it does seem to be a good idea and a good place to go for specific information about US politics. For instance, I can't see when I'd ever need it, but I'm sure having a complete list of the members of Clinton's Cabinets in one place on this entry will be useful to someone.
It's interesting to wonder whether amidst all the noise we make about how important blogging is to the showing the power of the internet, the real future of the net might be in wikis instead. Perhaps inspired by the success of Wikipedia, more seem to be cropping up, and they provide a very good way of collecting together the knowledge of lots of people on a subject in a very efficient way.
Now, I'll probably regret saying this, but anyone interested in creating one to cover British and/or European politics?
I've not gone too deep into it, so I'm sure there's stuff in there for you to complain about should you want to look for it (but it's a Wiki, so you can also change it should you wish) but it does seem to be a good idea and a good place to go for specific information about US politics. For instance, I can't see when I'd ever need it, but I'm sure having a complete list of the members of Clinton's Cabinets in one place on this entry will be useful to someone.
It's interesting to wonder whether amidst all the noise we make about how important blogging is to the showing the power of the internet, the real future of the net might be in wikis instead. Perhaps inspired by the success of Wikipedia, more seem to be cropping up, and they provide a very good way of collecting together the knowledge of lots of people on a subject in a very efficient way.
Now, I'll probably regret saying this, but anyone interested in creating one to cover British and/or European politics?



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