Candidate blogging

Lawrence Lessig (Stanford law professor, fearless defender of the people's right to intellectual property, and originator of the Creative Commons) writes an interesting weblog that usually focuses on intellectual property issues. Last month he turned over the weblog for a week to give a guest turn to Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and this week he's done the same with candidate Dennis Kucinich.

No matter what you think of these candidates' particular politics, it's very interesting to see some of the politicos wake up to the use of weblogs as a means of direct two-way communication with a savvy group of the electorate.