Sam Yoon's at-large campaign's got blog.

Several local bloggers are doubling as politicos and reporting back from the Democratic issues convention in Lowell this weekend, including SCO, Ben, Patrick and Kristie, the latter of whom admits to finding Lowell a bit creepy, but who does find at least one thing to like about Lowell - free beer at union parties:

Look for blogger and podperson CC on Channel 5's 6 p.m. news tonight Monday night.

... Doing a trend segment on podcasting. We did a big interview segment and then they recorded me from all sorts of angles recording an actual Accident Hash and then we did some B-Roll footage. ...

UPDATE: Yes, it's been pushed back to Monday (thanks, Shelley); CC writes they might want to time it to run with the launch of the Channel 5 podcast. Yes, the Channel 5 Podcast, brought to you by Bernie & Phyl's (no, I don't know that, but why not, why shouldn't they annoy you on the Internets too?).

That's Michael's judgment of City Councillor John Tobin's Web presence. On the one hand, it's cool that Tobin (who represents Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury) has a well designed, blog-based Web site (run by Steve Garfield). On the other hand, Tobin himself isn't actually blogging on the site - maybe a symptom of the fact that true blogging and discourse means taking a risk, and that's one thing politicians hate to do, Michael says:

... Perhaps, rather than getting politicians to blog, it is time for bloggers to enter politics. ...

Notes from Tobin's meeting with the Berkman bloggers last week
Video of his talk

Ed. note: Two years ago, Matt O'Malley actually blogged and dipped into the Wicked Good Conference to talk about Boston issues when he ran for an at-large council seat. So far, his 2005 Web site looks like any other generic candidate site, but one can hope there's more to come.

Boston Crazy Driving:

Documenting all the stupid, weird, unusual and just-plain-crazy driving maneuvers I witness in the Boston area on a daily basis - without being redundant.

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