[NormsRevenge]

Is it me.. Or are Blogs over-rated?

FR does the trick just fine, imo.

[okie01]

"Campaigns would be well-advised to designate a team just to keep track of and respond to web-generated stories and opinion, starting with the Big Four."

My sense is that Free Republic is already closely monitored -- by both sides. And that one side is still trying to discover a means for launching a successful "disruption attack".

It will have to employ stealth technology, because ordinary disrupters are so easily identified and shot out of the sky by the ZOT! guns...

[Beck_isright]

FR isn't part of the "Big 4"?????????????????

Obviously Hew is losing his mind:)
We are the BIG 4. The rest are just "chatter".

[Dan from Michigan]

I shouldn't say this, although I doubt it's a secret. If I was running a high end campaign, I'd use a few tricks.(Congress, Senate, Att General, Sec of State, Governor).(This can backfire some on smaller races).

1. Have some friends that are good flamethrowers post on places like FR, gun forums, etc positive pieces on my candidate, and negative pieces on the enemy.

2. Have those same people put up negative websites, even better if it can be mistaken address for enemy. "Joesmith2004.org/com/net" Major negative(but factual) info on them.

3. Ton of Blogspot type sites. One of those will hit in a search.

[Prodigal Son]

Hmmm. Not sure how I feel being mentioned in the same sentence as DU. I'll give 'em credit, they're hanging in there but they are not even remotely in the same league as FR. The vast majority of their threads aren't about anything at all- just meaningless vanity questions:

• Is it ok for my yak to smoke here?
• Pipe or papers?
• sheeeesh, I'm such an idiot
• Best David Bowie album?
• Any states left where you can buy M-80s?

To name a few current ones.

They're a bunch of teenagers, old hippies, Castro apologists and terrorist supporters- in short they're losers. It's more like a satire site- like the Onion. The scary part is: this is apparantly the state of the democratic voting base.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I never knew how shallow and unimportant my life was until I found out what a blog was.

I'm like a new man, two really.

[ctonious]

Howard Dean is reported to be investing heavily in controlling web-spin, but the blogs cannot be controlled in any meaningful way. The filters that reporters and producers used to provide are gone, destroyed by free agents in cyberspace

Just goes to show that the dumb#ss doesn't get it. He can't tell blatant and huge lies anymore, the usual staple of the DNC and his ilk, and expect them to go unchallenged, when millions stand ready to Google the "facts" of his ridiculous assertions - and nuke him before he begins his second paragraph.

[Lil'freeper]

I object to FR being mentioned in the same sentence as DU wannabes.

[RAT Patrol]

I never visit any of the so-called "big four." My big four are freeRepublic.com (#1), Townhall.com, DrudgeReport.com, and JewishWorldReview.com. Then there are various newspaper websites that I visit. Everything else I link to from the above sites, for the most part. Or I search google for articles on specific subjects.

[longtermmemmory]

from http://www.alexa.com

Freerepublic traffic ranks:
Traffic rank:

Today 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change
940 1,001 780 474


from the dumies: I could not find their rank stats they must not even be in the top 500

[RAT Patrol]

I'd rather read the opinions of FReepers than Bloggers.

[Helms]

http://www.monkeytime.org/

[colorado tanker]

Bookmark.

[SunnyUsa]

interesting! bookmarked for future reading

[Porterville]

What is a damn blog??? I'm a frickn' Freeper.

[cardinal4]

Democratic Underground is in the same universe as FR.

[DoctorMichael]

I'm not THAT pleased. Why is FR mentioned in the samne sentence as the DUh?

[JohnHuang2]

...MEGA PING

[GretchenEE]

I love this:

Howard Dean is reported to be investing heavily in controlling web-spin, but the blogs cannot be controlled in any meaningful way.

AMEN!