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The fashion of political blogs

Lately, the new fashion is to talk about blogs with political contents. PP, the right wing party in Spain, included a stand with ?bloggers? in their last convention, and PSOE, the socialist party, has answered with a similar activity en Santiago (Galicia), lead by Enrique Castro, the administrator of socialist blogs.I have to admit that I don?t track political blogs, but there is one exception: Escolar.net, which deals with these topics with an attractive ease. But it is also true that politicians should be the number one bloggers, because their jobs consist exactly in that: in talking with citizens. And what a better way of doing so than blogging!But we should still be careful, because it can have negative consequences. For example, in France, people have created tones of blogs that deal with the CPE, First Job Contract, whose implementation is causing mayhem in the streets of the country. But they?ve manage them in a way that it isn?t clear which are real and which are not. It?s all about their image.If democracy ?came down? to the blogosphere, it runs the risk of becoming the ground for a media war, simply because it seems to be what it is not. That?s why I find the last paragraph of an article in the Spanish broadsheet El País very appropriate: it refers to the need of putting the blogosphere in order through social networks that inform us of which blogs are really influential.