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October 9, 2006

Carolina FreedomNet Report

Well, this weekend found me in Greensboro at Carolina FreedomNet 2006, which was a great event. The John Locke Foundation was a great host, and the participating bloggers were all very interesting folks. I encourage visits to their own sites:

Scott Johnson of Power Line hardly needs any introduction: Power Line was at the very center of the controversy over Dan Rather's faked National Guard memos in 2004. Scott was a very unassuming and couteous guy, a real pleasure to meet.

The first panel of the day included Lorie Byrd, of Wizbang; Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee; Sister Toldjah of, well, Sister Toldjah; and Sam Hieb of Sam's Notes.

I joined the second panel, as did Mary Katherine Ham; Jeff Taylor of The Meck Deck; and Scott Elliot of Election Projection.

In his lunchtime address, Scott Johnson mentioned the similarities between the pamphleteers of the pre-Revolutionary period in America and blogging today. Strangely, he did so by quoting the book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Strange because I did so myself in 2005, also in reference to a blog conference. I guess it shows that great minds think alike!

I won't do a comprehensive overview of the content of the conference, but I will be doing a post or piece about it a bit later. One conversation in particular was very thought-provoking.

Posted by Chester at October 9, 2006 10:02 AM

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Blogging is an aid to pamphleteering. Most voters still get their information from the MSM.

We must go back to pasting up posters and handing out one page newsletters. Imagine the effect of passing out the rebuttals to lies at the bus stop the very next morning.

Posted by: davod at October 9, 2006 7:32 PM