Some weeks ago, Aida, my dear freind from Sarajevo, sent an email in which she let me know about quite peculiar trend that is emerging Namely, French blogger, Loic le Meur has posted in December 2005 a podcast on his blog of an interview with the French Interior Minister, Nocolas Sarkozy. That was the first time a French politician of his rank has agreed to be interviewed by a blogger and for the interview to be posted as a podcast on the web.
Business Week Online called the interview with loiclemeur.com "a watershed event" and announced that other French politicians were intererested to be interviewed by the blogger.
Today I red that Bulgarian bloggers have also influenced pre-electoral situation, as many of them decided not to enter the polling stations in the first round of Bulgaria's presidential elections that was taking place on October 22. "A decision not to vote can sometimes be as influential as going to the polls", writes SEE Times, "as legions of non-voters denied incumbent President Georgi Parvanov a first-round victory and forced him into a runoff against Volen Siderov of the Attack coalition. Bulgarian bloggers have been taking stock of the situation."
A frind of mine who is a political journalist in Zagreb has recently commenrced his own blog Novo vrijeme (meaning "New time", implying I guess political change that is supposed to happen), where he is predominantly concerned with the approaching parliamentary elections that are due in October next year in Croatia. I am sure there are many many more politically aware people on the blogosphere, all over the place, that are in this way influencing political changes. Causing new times to come....and also making politicians aware thay can't any longer ignore the growing importance of nontraditional media.
Post je objavljen 29.10.2006. u 12:15 sati.