BlogPAC explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.alternet.org/story/22233/the_blogfather "The Blogfather"
  2. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/06/05/215981/-BlogPAC "BlogPAC"
  3. http://robertbrigham.blogspot.com/2006/06/support-netroots-support-blogpac.html "Support the Netroots, Support BlogPAC"
  4. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/01/10/289114/-Support-The-50-State-Blog-Network "Support The 50 State Blog Network"
  5. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/07/10/356084/-BlogPac-Progressive-Entrepreneur-Contest "BlogPac Progressive Entrepreneur Contest"
  6. http://www.openleft.com/diary/10870/ "Saving Soapblox Update and Thanks"
  7. Web site: Committee Details for Committee Id C00406405.