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A couple weeks ago I did the following rough work-up analysis on a dry erase board at a meeting of California bloggers. I'd like to expand on that analysis here so that folks nationwide might be able to use/debate/add to these insights. I hope you find them useful. W hen wearing our "blogger strategy" thinking caps, it's crucial to break down the political playing field and understand the different zones that folks are working in. From a blogger's point of view, we can break down the U.S. political playing field into three broad categories, or zones. I'll cover them in reverse order, as I did on the dry erase board, micro to macro, from Zone C to Zone A :: Zone C: The Democratic grassroots and local political environment The Democratic grassroots, or Zone C, is everything that happens politically offline. It is the micro political environment . Included in Zone C are Democratic clubs. Democratic State and County Committees. Advocacy and community organizations...

Sometimes I wonder if I've run out of interesting things to say. Hell, sometimes I wonder if there was ever an original thought in my head. It's February in California. It's raining. Where I live that means it feels like spring. Inquisitive robins greet me on the way to the coffee shop. The flowering vines on my neighbor's trellis are blooming. Tender shoots are popping up in the planters, and the grass on the East Bay hills is green and getting greener... :: I became a photographer because I was good at writing. Yeah, that sounds funny, but it's true. Professors used to ask me if they could keep my essays. Once I was even asked to read one aloud to class. If you're shy, as I am, that can make you a bit sheepish about the process...especially since I wrote most of my essays longhand drinking coffee in the back booth at a now defunct 24hour restaurant on Broadway called the College Inn. I rarely gave the actual wording of the essays more than an outline's ef...

I'm still here . lol. Though I'm not sure how many of the casual readers who used to check in semi-regularly or quasi-semi regularly off the dKos blogroll will do so now that the dKos link is down. Some folks just don't do bookmarks. I've said this before, but I appreciate your readership however you arrive here. For what it's worth, I also appreciate links. All bloggers do. Hell, part of what I tried to do during the 2006 elections was to turn this blog over to links to the local and regional blogs. The google page rank here...thanks in part to some high-powered incoming links...in turn helped those blogs. That's how it works. You can see a few of them, for now, down the side bar of this blog. I'd like to think those links also offered some moral support. But, yes, that now outdated blog roll, if not this entire blog and my blogging itself, is due for a change/revamp soon. That being given, I don't really have much to say on the meta topic of blogrolls...