Winning Them Over...One at a Time

Holly Aho needs help:

A friend of mine is a radio talk show host for an AM radio station and brought up the topics of blogs on his show this evening. His basic contention was that blogs are not useful, powerful or read. He doesn't have a blog because he does not believe it is a valuable use of his time (that is...no one reads them). He wanted to know if he was wrong or misinformed.

Now I know of the power of blogs, have seen newspapers corrected by blogs (Little Green Footballs is a great example of blogs catching what the media doesn't), I've seen the media turn to blogs for information for stories...I've seen blogs influence things such as the International Freedom Center. What I'd like to do is give him a little taste of the power of blogs!

So, if you have 10 seconds and an email address, I'd like to send him some emails from bloggers and blog readers. I've set up the link below to automatically create an email from you to him, CC to me (I get an email sent to me as well) with the subject of "Are Blogs Powerful?" and the text of the email as, "Hi Chris, I heard through blogger Holly Aho that you were questioning the power of blogs. I'm a blogger/blog reader. She wrote a blog post requesting a few emails be sent to you to show you blogs are read and listened to. Here's my email!"

Send an e-mail if you get a second and show how many people do read blogs. I don't think there's been an adequate study conducted that shows what information people get from blogs. I for one know that during the '04 presidential election, I was refreshing The Corner every twenty seconds and followed everything that was happening through K-Lo and the gang.

Follow the link for the e-mail address.