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BlogPAC Media Initiative

Submitted by Mike Stark on Wed, 2008-09-03 04:09. | |

We at BlogPAC.com do our best to represent the progressive blogosphere. Of course, not everyone is going to agree with our conception of what it means to represent something as big and multi-faceted as "the progressive blogosphere," but each of us are as deeply invested and embedded in online politics as we can be.

Something we've identified as a constant irritant is our collective inability to get our message picked up by the old media.

Well, when SaysMe.TV came along, we didn't waste any time wringing our hands over whether or not we should use the tool. I personally contacted their CEO, created an ad and contracted to run it in Minneapolis during the RNC.

Kestrel9000 does the narrating.


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