The Secret about the blogosphere

Actually, this is just an attempt to squeeze two posts into one. Firstly, did the term "secret" raise your eyebrow? The Washington Post this morning has another, "uhh, duh--I always knew that, but for some reason I'm still going to read the article" column. This time about Americans' fetish with secrecy. Now, aside from the USA Today blandness of the piece, and it's "uh-duh" nature, the author makes one good point: maybe the reason people don't care about pork-barrel spending is that it's not a secret! If that's (sadly) true, then I'm going to gear-up and run a secret campaign for Congress...but maybe that's actually already happening. With hundreds of soft-money groups putting up "draft so & so" for President websites and hosting "draft so & so" rallies, the "secret" campaign may already be upon us. I just joined "Draft Newt 2008."

Jonathan Adler at The Corner, just a minute ago blogged about this piece from the Cleavland Plain Dealer about blogs' influence in politics . These blogs are the most influencial in the Ohio races. Blogging is obviously the newest big deal in media, but how big can it get? Interestingly, many cable news shows have blogger run-downs on the weekends, and some papers including now Washington DC's newest paper, The Examiner, have columns writen by bloggers. We bloggers are good at revealing secrets...