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Vermonters Writing About TMD

Here’s a quick rundown of some of the TMD action around the Vermont blogosphere…

  • Vermont View is doing a great job, featuring several posts today about political hapenings around the state, including piece on the Brattleboro indictment vote, electioneering Montpelier style, and the apparent Obama blowout here in Vermont.
  • Broadsides features an essay about how the power of Town Meetings in Vermont has been curtailed over the years yielding a process that has few teeth when it comes to statewide politics.
  • Green Mountain Daily is featuring some thoughtful thoughs and speculations about today’s results.
  • iBrattleboro’s got Brattleboro Town Meeting pictures!
  • Front Porch Forum may be the busiest online forum in the state when it comes to Vermonters discussing issues and candidates with each other. According to FPF founder and moderator Michael Wood Lewis, 150 different people have posted messages to the forum recently about the Moran Plant question in Burlington alone! Too bad those posts aren’t permalinked anywhere. That would be a valuable resource and a fascinating archive of this election cycle.
  • Walter Jeffries has a post at Sugar Mountain Farm about the absurdity of voter ID systems in West Topsham, Vermont.

Most of the links under the Vermont Politics list in the right side bar have current posts about this Town Meeting Day and/or Vermont presidential primary. Take a tour through these blogs and let them know you stopped by!

Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pm.

2 Responses to “Vermonters Writing About TMD”

Thanks for the mention and all the great work on Exit Voices, Bill et al.

And I agree with your point about Front Porch Forum. Lots of activity, but it’s not publicly accessible. The typical FPF subscriber differs from a political blogger… they are comfortable posting to their FPF neighborhood forum (open to only their nearby neighbors), but not so much the entire world wide web.

That said, I wish there was a simple and acceptable solution to unlocking the thousands of posting archived on Front Porch Forum… ideas welcome! -Michael

Left by Michael Wood-Lewis on March 4th, 2008

Michael,

Meghan and I were just talking about this and batting around some ideas. Like maybe it’s possible when you sign up for a FPF subscription to check a box saying you don’t mind your posts being used in non-commercial ways outside of the local forum. Then you could curate some material from those posts that are from folks who checked that box. Alternately, you could pick posts that have more city-wide relevance and email the specific posters asking their permission to distribute the content widely.

Another option — one I just thought of and it’s my favorite yet — you could set up a special FPF forum that city-wide and exclusive to politics. Then you could soothe all the ruffled feathers who would rather see the regular FPFs remain politics-free — you could funnel those posts to the politics forum.

Left by admin on March 4th, 2008

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