Yet politicians are beginning to see blogs are more than forums for snoops. To some, they are the ultimate cyberspace soapbox. United States Rep. Ray Cox of Minnesota was the first major politician to start a blog, according to the Pew Project, and the prime minister of Japan has one. "It enriches the conversation and provides a forum for an exchange of ideas that - for a public official - is very useful," says Oakland's Mayor [Jerry] Brown [the former Governor of California and Presidential candidate].
His blogs can range from the practical to the existential - touching on a local curfew for probationers or the imprisonment of a blogger in Iran, where he muses: "Schopenhauer said that extracting truth from oneself required putting one's mind on a rack and subjecting it to relentless interrogation - so prone are we to delusion and denial."
Via Wes Roth.
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