How the internet can change politics
Jonathan Freedland has written a timely article in The Guardian about the revolutionary effects of the internet on politics and democracy and asks whether web tools can actually better democracy or stifle it.By Stifling, I think Jonathan means suffocating irritants such as Madness of crowd, Digg crowd, and abusive bloggers among other enemies of the useful web.
Writing about the challenges before the modern but always calculating politician, Jonathan concludes that,
the changes now in train could go either way, expanding democracy or contracting it.
Read the whole article here
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