Iowa QC pols utilizing blog, Illinois, not so much.

Today the Times runs a featured piece on the "Daily Davenport Politics" blog and how it's affecting the races and politics within the town.

This is well-deserved publicity for the good folks at DDP, three anonymous bloggers who have maintained an interesting, well written, and attractive blog beginning at around the same time as The Inside Dope.

A source for my eternal jealousy is, as the article points out, the fact that, unlike pols on this side of the river who appear to be hoping that if they ignore or harass the blog it will go away, politicians on the Iowa side often utilize blogging and participate in discussions and comments on "Daily Davenport Politics" and it makes for a much more stimulating, informative, and beneficial atmosphere. I'd encourage local candidates and politicians to give the story a look.

For Bill Boom, running for 3rd Ward alderman in Davenport is as much about clicking the mouse as it is about knocking on doors.

Boom and other candidates have found a new campaign tool in an online blog called Davenport Daily Politics.

“We found it was a great opportunity for a grass-roots campaign to be able to get our name out, get attention and be able to float ideas and see how they fly,” Boom said. “It’s like the proverbial ‘run it up the flagpole and see how many holes get shot in it.’ From that standpoint, I think it helped us formulate our message.”

While "The Inside Dope" has more readers than DDP, alas, it's not mentioned in the article which focuses on the Davenport political scene. (The article also botches the subject blog's web address and the link in the online version does not work. The correct address is http://qcdavenport.blogspot.com/

DDP founder "Fly on the Wall", and co-blogger "QC Images" have been frequent and welcome commenters here in the past and I admire their work. Congratulations to them on their mention in the QC Times.

For future reference, they're listed in the blogroll in the sidebar.