[Mpls] Rybak launches blog, most candidates afraid to "leave record"

[Victoria Heller]

"Tonight, Rybak will unveil his campaign Web log, or blog, a part online
diary and part forum that many credit with helping launch Howard Dean -
temporarily - to the top of the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential
nomination.

John Palfrey, the executive director of the Center for Internet and Society
at Harvard Law School, said few politicians have embraced blogs. One reason,
he speculated, is that they leave a permanent record, and politicians with
higher ambitions might be afraid to write something that comes back to haunt
them.  "Do you really want to leave a record?" Palfrey asked."

.....excerpted from today's Pioneer Press:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/10775731.htm

Relayed by Vicky Heller
North Oaks and Cedar-Riverside