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Much has been made in the peculiar media all round Aussie politicians’ use of YouTube object of political advertising for the upcoming Federal nomination. And then there is the blogified but essentially propaganda-focused KevinO7 orientation, named an eye to Opposition Labor Party chieftain and Prime Ministerial contender Kevin Rudd and set up by the Labor Party.

So is this to be a Web 2.0 appointment? spring, you’d reckon, wouldn’t you, that the Aussie pollies would by right away from picked up on what their American counterparts from figured out, that it’s a pierce idea to organize a blog? At least for the duration of the campaign, if not on an growing basis (let’s be practical, don’t want too much transparency, do we?).

Well, although there may be many, or at least divers, blogs being maintained by Federal politicians, then it seems they are keeping well under the Google and Technorati radar. Nor are any blogs showing up on the excellent set of Autstralian designation tools appoint up by Google.

So in relation to the “do Australian politicians really get the blogosphere?” question, I was interested - and hopeful - to foresee that at The Australian Blogging Conference scheduled for next week, the first term of the daytime is listed as:

The Politics of Blogging

• suitable, left or centre?
• Who cares?
• A ward-heeler’s vantage point
• Blogging the 2007 Federal vote

Sounds like a penetrating session to kick the day off. Only whosis is, there is as far as I be informed lone one politician attending! A blogger, to be steadfast, but the blogger is Senator Andrew Bartlett, from the minority Australian Democrats. No one attending from the chief parties, in gall and wormwood of invitations having been issued.

So in spite of some use of YouTube and a blogified website for the Opposition campaign, I don’t be convinced of there is much mark currently that the coming Australian Federal election can be seen as in any operating an illustration of Web 2.0 at operate.

If you have seen more encouraging signs than I’ve been able to find, let us remember.

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