10+ Blogging Politicians Who Still Don’t Say What They Mean

  4 Comments Place the words “blog” or “social media” and “politician” in the same line, and you almost invariably conjure images of a scandal. Or at least a messy exchange between writer/publisher and politician. Much less often are you likely to consider them a team. Politician bloggers? Turns out those terms are not mutually exclusive. They’re more prevalent than the average citizen might believe. Of course, it would be naive to assume the full supply of politician bloggers past and present crafted that kind of output all by themselves. Aids certainly play key roles in those respects. But even taking the spokesmen and spokeswomen into account, the list of government officials on a global spectrum invested in social media to varying degrees is pretty remarkable. Blogs of myriad stripes and sizes are more or less a natural addition to many political campaigns of our day. Barack Obama, who entered the national headlines in the last year and a half, has done his share of networking on the Web. The candidate has constructed a successful social network custom fit for maximum campaign effect. His Twitter history is something to note. The network-effect of some of his live and pre-produced videos has garnered north of a millions views each. Altogether, the Senator’s use of numerous Web-based services is no doubt unprecedented. His promise to appoint a “chief technology officer” for the Executive branch if he is elected has gone down well with the blogger class, too.

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