French bloggers important to "non" vote
Stephen Baker in Business Week Online:
Bloggers played a big part in yesterday's historic French vote rejecting the European constitution.[...]
Perhaps the most important, according to the newspaper Liberation was a law professor named Etienne Chouard. His (French-language) site received 25,000 visits per day, and was linked throughout the French blog world. Blogs turned this professor into a national celebrity, one who went head-to-head with the leading French politicians. Now that he's got power and a platform, he's mulling leading a grassroots democratic movement in France.
(Thanks to Buzz Machine.)