Blogger Wars - Left vs Right - We WIN!
A new report was just released on Bloggers, Conservative and Liberal, and although the Left has more blogs, we win in influence.
The Left may have the numbers. but we have the power and use it efficiently. Just like in America, the Left screams and squeals but there message is one of garbage, were as conservative bloggers are on target and united against a common foe. And as for this little nugget of wisdom - "There was some hope that the blogosphere would help bridge the different opinions in America, but what we are seeing is in an election year, it was divisive online and there was a strong tendency for separation of differences.", what do you expect, conservative bloggers are not swayed by "feelings" nor are we easily led by the Left's lies and talking points, we make mincemeat out of them. This report doesn't see that conservative blogger hold their moral values to higher standards and are not willing to compromise them either, as where the Left's main object is power and they will do anything to obtain it. I foresee this trend to continue through the '08 election and beyond. Conservative bloggers are mostly made up of ordinary people that are tired of being taken advantage of and are voicing their opposition to the decline in America. When principles come into play, we stand behind ours, and that is the way it's going to be.
Mr Minority
CHICAGO -- There may be more liberal blogs than conservative ones on the Internet, but the conservatives appear to be much more adept at employing the technology of the medium to market their message and influence public opinion, experts told UPI's The Web.
Take last year's presidential election. Research shows conservatives used the blogs -- a contraction for the term, Web logs -- to talk down Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on the Internet, perhaps making themselves one of the decisive factors in the November election's outcome.
"Who were the bloggers writing about?" asks the new report, "The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog, from Intelliseek's BlogPulse project." It answers its own question, "Curiously, 59 percent of the mentions of John Kerry came from right-leaning bloggers, while 53 percent of the mentions of George W. Bush came from left-leaning bloggers."
The study was conducted by Natalie Glance of Intelliseek, a marketing intelligence firm in Cincinnati, and Lada Adamic of HP Labs, the main laboratory for Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, Calif. It showed that of the 1,494 most influential blogs, during the two months leading up to the election, 759 were liberal in worldview, while 735 were conservative. The conservatives, however, showed a "greater tendency" to link to other blogs than did the liberals -- on average 15.1 links per conservative blog to 13.6 for the liberals. That made them more powerful agents of persuasion.
"We've been looking at blogs for about a year," Glance said. "There was some hope that the blogosphere would help bridge the different opinions in America, but what we are seeing is in an election year, it was divisive online and there was a strong tendency for separation of differences."
Conservative blogs apparently were the most influential sites, generating huge flows of traffic to right-leaning news organizations, such as the National Review magazine and Fox News television. The bloggers' links also pushed up the readership numbers for publications such as The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal's online Opinion Journal and The Washington Times, Glance said.
Other experts said the trend is likely to continue, and it is starting to shape the way businesses are perceived, too, not just politicians.
The Left may have the numbers. but we have the power and use it efficiently. Just like in America, the Left screams and squeals but there message is one of garbage, were as conservative bloggers are on target and united against a common foe. And as for this little nugget of wisdom - "There was some hope that the blogosphere would help bridge the different opinions in America, but what we are seeing is in an election year, it was divisive online and there was a strong tendency for separation of differences.", what do you expect, conservative bloggers are not swayed by "feelings" nor are we easily led by the Left's lies and talking points, we make mincemeat out of them. This report doesn't see that conservative blogger hold their moral values to higher standards and are not willing to compromise them either, as where the Left's main object is power and they will do anything to obtain it. I foresee this trend to continue through the '08 election and beyond. Conservative bloggers are mostly made up of ordinary people that are tired of being taken advantage of and are voicing their opposition to the decline in America. When principles come into play, we stand behind ours, and that is the way it's going to be.
Mr Minority
