Pandering to the Anonymous Mob

PiTW demonstrates the more repugnant dimensions of blogging by listing and feeding Tennessee's internet trolls.

Aunt B suggests that the trolls may not be independent but beholden to mobilized-for-battle party factions. If that is the case, then PiTW is enabling some ugly partisan behavior rather than providing readers a forum to crowdsource news.


UPDATE: Southcomm looking to get in on some of that anonymous echo chamber action. Up those pageloads, boys.

Cool Hack

We need something like this in Nashville. Chattanooga's Chattarati has created "cash maps" for each candidate in their municipal elections. The maps pinpoint campaign donations on Google maps, so that, for instance you can find out that one of their city council candidates received a $250 donation from Nashville. One more click and you find that the Nashville donor was the Tennessee Realtors PAC.