All Intensive Purposes

Lindsay Beyerstein has a perceptive column at Salon about Amanda Marcotte's hiring by the Edwards campaign and subsequent defenestration by various right-wing attackers. It seems to me that Beyerstein is on the right track when she says that the effectiveness of the netroots will not be greatest if bloggers are hired by campaigns -- the new technology and new community needs a new organization. But she says it better, so read her take. Via Ogged.