Wilmington's Move Against Simple, Cheap Transparency

The Wilmington, Delaware city council makes audio recordings of its meetings. This Tuesday, the council did something pretty lame: it voted down a measure to post those recordings online. The logic: it's better to keep these inaccessible, for no other reason than to keep people from getting them:

All Politics is Wiki: Kentucky Bloggers Wikify their Party

Kentucky bloggers are taking back their state's Democratic Party, one wiki entry at a time.  This week Ben Carter and Joe Sonka, proprietors of the progressive Kentucky blog BlueGrassRoots, announced the creation of BlueGrassWiki.  The project aims to organize information about Kentucky's 120 county parties in order to "infiltrate" local leadership in upcoming party precinct elections.

Web 2.0 For Local Races?

How much should lower-level political candidates try to adopt the multi-faceted internet strategies of the presidential campaigns?