{"id":1163,"date":"2007-04-11T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T18:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/11\/mesh-social-for-political-junkies\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T18:56:55","slug":"mesh-social-for-political-junkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/11\/mesh-social-for-political-junkies\/","title":{"rendered":"mesh social \u2014 for political junkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time (and we hope you did too) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meshconference.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/29\/thanks-to-all-who-meshed\/\">last mesh meetup<\/a>, but we just can&#8217;t resist the opportunity to get together again &#8212; and this time, we&#8217;re sending a shout out to anyone from the political side of the blogosphere and Web 2.0 land. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" id=\"image1164\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_d412wb0pmea2.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"snipshot_d412wb0pmea2.jpg\" \/>One of the panels we&#8217;ve got planned for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meshconference.com\">mesh conference<\/a> is looking at how the Web is affecting politics and the political process, and we&#8217;ve got a stellar cast of characters to look at the issue: blogger and National Post columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewcoyne.com\/\">Andrew Coyne<\/a>, blogging M.P. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garth.ca\/\">Garth Turner<\/a>, former Paul Martin speechwriter and humorist <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macleans.ca\/advansis\/?mod=for&#038;act=dis&#038;eid=13\">Scott Feschuk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=HWH7hB57aSk\">Phil de Vellis<\/a>, the creator of the &#8220;Vote Different&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo\">YouTube video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a political blogger or just someone who&#8217;s interested in how the Web is impacting social and political change &#8212; or maybe you just like beer and pool. Come on out on May 9 at The Charlotte Room &#8211; details <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.org\/event\/174725\/\">here<\/a>. And if you know anyone else who might want to come, please spread the word.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time (and we hope you did too) at the last mesh meetup, but we just can&#8217;t resist the opportunity to get together again &#8212; and this time, we&#8217;re sending a shout out to anyone from the political side of the blogosphere and Web 2.0 land. One of the panels we&#8217;ve got &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/11\/mesh-social-for-political-junkies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mesh social \u2014 for political junkies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}