Ten Trends of Political Blogging

Here are some trends in political blogging and the politics of blogging that will really matter this year.

1. Political blogs are simply political. Regular-people-telling-the-truth-about-their-lives blogs are subversive and radical.

2. The blog swarm giveth, the blog swarm taketh away. (What bloggers write about -- jump all over -- swarm all over -- put at the top of the charts -- these issues can define the discussion, not because they are necessarily more correct, more fascinating or more important -- but because they are so FAST AND FRESH.)

3. FDR: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Bush: "We have nothing so profitable as fear and fear itself."

4. Cheney is not, and never has been the Vice President.

5. "It's the credit card economy, stupid."

6. There are no more Democrats. There are no more Republicans.

7. We should kiss Europe's ass for reminding us who we are as a nation and who we must be and who we can not be.

8. Remember the video of the LA Riots -- dads smashing store fronts, moms carrying away jumbo pack diapers.

9. The Diebold Riots will not be pretty.

10. Blogs opened our hearts, our minds, our lives. Dean opened our hopes. Meetup opened our homes. Can you spell C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y? There is no going back.