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I think it will be more like 40M individuals, loosely joined. The issue is not to figure out how to get a mass audience on the net; it is more an issue of getting relationships and affinities aligned. There will be a few lists with a few hundred thousand or million people tuning in (thanks to those indviduals' self selected interest and the submitters ongoing ability to provide them relevant and authentic feeds), followed by passalongs and co-blogging by X% of those recipients.

Right now, I am taking selections from my RSS readings, and passing them to a short list of my friends of similar mindsets. So maybe this is less about disintermediation (which, as it grows the the multi-M's approaches a form of "media") and more about localization or personalization of media sources. FWIW

The Bush administration has been effective at controlling the flow of information during the Iraq war. One thing that they have been particularly effective at is removing the human face. The recently published photos of our war dead help to dramatize this point.

We need to bring the human cost of the war home to everyone. How about doing this by building a pyramid of the 700+ coffins of American dead?

Think about it.

I don't know whether this is the proper place to insert an opinion having nothing to do with the Bush Administration controlling information about the war, listed above, but I am using this forum since I can't seem to find any place else in the MoveOn site to make my case.
I have commented before that MoveOn.org is the perfect place for a mobilization of two million emails to Washington to demand a law requiring a paper trail for every voting machine used in the forthcoming election. I just read somewhere that the house and senate have both just decided not to bother with that. Naturally, it is to Republican interests to leave the door open for any necessary last-minute changes to assure victory in November. (I am not suggesting that this is anybody's thought). It looks like the only thing that will turn the tide is a massive outpouring from the public demanding fool-proof (as much as possible) machines in November. True Majority is staging a massive campaign called The Computer Ate My Vote, drawing attention to print-out needs in a state-by-state effort. California, as a result, may refuse to use paperless machines. This would provide a real impetus for other states to follow suit. My point is that a e-mail campaign by MoveOn.org to national representatives and senators, coordinating with this True Majority effort would be a tremendous step in the right direction. Why all this work to register people, only to lose in the end?

B. Grotegut

Bush knows that he cannot win the majority of votes in a fair election, Heck, he did not win the majority of voties in 2000. After all the mistakes he has made. Do you think he will win in 2004?

Democrats need to ensure a paper trail so that we do NOT have a repeat of the irregularities of 2000.

Imagine this:

President bush sits in a classroom full of children when an aid walks up and wispers in his ear, Mr. President we have just been notified that we are tracking 6 intercontinetal ballistic missle inbound to the United States, We are under attack. Mr. Bush reaches over to a shelf and picks up a book titled My pet goat. For the next 7 minutes he sits bewildered, tumbing through the book presumably looking at the pictures. By the time he reacts to this attack 7 minutes have past. Is there enough time now to react? probably not. The mushroom cloud is upon us. Is this senario far fetched? maybe not. Will this president be prepared? probably not. Can we afford to take the chance with Bush? Absolutley not. Lets illustrate these fact in a TV comercial and really highlite whether this president is someone we want to trust with 4 more years. Let them explain Bush's service to the country.

Brian Entwistle

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