Jerry Brown Enters World of Blogging

New York Times
Apr. 28, 2005

By AP


''Everyone who has something interesting to say cannot afford not to be saying it in a blog as well,'' said Sreenath Sreenivasan, a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism who follows the blogosphere."

"The politblog vanguard includes North Dakota, where five senators began blogging recently on The Bismarck Tribune's legislative Web site, and Minnesota, where several state legislators maintain personal blogs, including state Rep. Ray Cox, considered by the Pew project to be the first major politician to blog. A recent Cox entry detailed his ride to work, complete with digital photos."

"Some politicians' blogs have the smack of a canned release; others are little more than a string of repostings of other writers. Which leads to a commonly asked question of politblogs: Is the politician really writing it?"

"''I can't imagine that at some point we won't see someone who is to the Internet what JFK was to television and FDR was to radio,'' he (Brown) said. ''And whoever that person is, he or she is going to have a blog.''