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"The flow of information flowed two ways, as the party establishment and allied organisations worked hand-in-hand with the blogs to gather ammunition, then blast it out to the world. The DNC and bloggers also urged readers and supporters to swamp online polls after the debate, and they did. Hours after the debate, just about every online poll gave Kerry huge victories in the debate."

==Sony sponsors blog==

Noting IDI's new practice, journalist, author and grassroots journalism advocate [[Dan Gillmor]] wrote, "As eWeek [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1759948,00.asp reported] in February, a subsidiary of the firm issued a report denouncing municipal wireless installations without making clear that big telecom firms, which vehemently oppose municipal wireless systems, are among the firm's chief funders. (See also Glenn Fleishman's '[http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004780.html sock puppets]' piece about this.) ... One of the imperatives in the emerging citizen journalism sphere will be to ferret out and tell readers about these techniques, in a systematic and lasting way." [http://dangillmor.typepad.com/dan_gillmor_on_grassroots/2005/04/blogger_relatio.html]

*[[blog trolling]]

*[[Internet activism]]

*Niall Cook, "[http://weblogs.netcoms.com/blogs/niallcook/archive/2005/05/19/279.aspx Blogging policies and guidelines]", [[Hill & Knowlton]], May 19, 2005.

*Erin Biba, "[http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/These-little-bloggers-went-to-market/2005/06/13/1118645753107.html These little bloggers went to market]", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', June 14, 2005.