50 State Blog Network

Submitted by Matt Stoller on Wed, 2007-01-10 18:31.

Laura Packard at MyDD has announced a new Blogpac project, the 50 state blog network. The goal of this project is to produce a strong network of state-based blogs across the country, to help grow their local blogospheres and turn red to blue on a statewide basis.

Over the next few years, using some nifty technologies, you will be able to login to any blog using the same ID, and we'll be able to begin to connect all sorts of neat shared data together to allow for a much stronger progressive movement. Blogpac is looking for other ways to help support state-based blogs as well.

Stay tuned.

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