BlogPAC

BlogPAC was a political action committee founded in 2004 by Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong focused on progressive bloggers and politics online.[1] In 2006, Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller took over BlogPAC from Moulitsas and Armstrong.[2] Instead of channeling money to electoral campaigns, the mission was refocused "to defend the netroots and improve the quality of online activism".[3] In 2007 BlogPAC organized progressive bloggers in several states, and offered microgrants to progressive bloggers through the 50 State Blog Project run by Laura Packard.[4] Later that year, BlogPAC ran a contest to fund progressive entrepreneurs for infrastructure building.[5] In 2009, BlogPAC funded the website software platform SoapBlox.[6] BlogPAC was active until 2012.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The Blogfather", Alternet, June 15, 2005
  2. ↑ "BlogPAC", DailyKos, June 5, 2006
  3. ↑ "Support the Netroots, Support BlogPAC", Bob Brigham Blog, June 5, 2006
  4. ↑ "Support The 50 State Blog Network", DailyKos, January 10, 2007
  5. ↑ "BlogPac Progressive Entrepreneur Contest", DailyKos, July 10, 2007
  6. ↑ "Saving Soapblox Update and Thanks", OpenLeft, January 12, 2009
  7. ↑ http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?C00406405


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