Primary Blog Aggregator
I have no idea who I dislike the least among the presidential contenders, but I'm pretty impressed with the spirit of this Howard Dean BloggerStorm site. I followed a Friday link from Dan Gillmor's site, which referred to it as an "aggregation of weblogs covering the Iowa presidential caucuses."

I clicked this morning and it's already shifted focus to "Live from New Hampshire." Here's the introduction:

After January 19th, the eyes of the political world will turn to New Hampshire's January 27th primary. As New Hampshire approaches, Blog for America will provide this roundup of blogs either based in the Granite State or whose authors have made the trip to New Hampshire to cover the race.

Not all of the bloggers below support Howard Dean -- the idea is simply to provide a clearinghouse for in-the-trenches coverage of the primary fight, as only blogs can provide.

I'm very keen on a site that will treat me like an adult, giving me facts and opinions from both sides and trust that I'm smart enough to reach my own conclusion. Also, I don't like being shouted at or told that a certain point of view is idiotic. I'm a 35 year old voter and news junkie who increasingly tunes out political rhetoric because it's getting more difficult to find the facts among the screamers. Figuring out who I want to vote for shouldn't be a full time job. I can't imagine I'm alone here.

I'd love to see someone - or heaven forbid even a bigtime news organization with gazoodles of money - build me a site that gives me the issues, the facts, the opinions, the blogs and links to primary documents where I can follow this election with a little less pain? Actually, I'd prefer to see several such sites.

Please use my comments section today, readers. Let me know where you get your news these days. Am I right about the screamers?
- posted by Amy @ 1/20/2004 10:32:00 AM