Now software to appropriately share computer screens among participants, although decades old, seems not to be used except perhaps by hi-tech cutting edgers.
From a New York Times article reporting the views of a cabal of contra-right retrograde reactionary regressives ("Agressive Progressives", in their own view):
Even as online pundits criticize traditional news organizations as slow, biased and technologically challenged, a group of bloggers is trying to use old-fashioned telephone conference calls to share their ideas with newspaper and television journalists.
The bloggers, who describe themselves as liberal or progressive, say the conference calls are intended to counter what they regard as the much stronger influence of conservative pundits online. Bob Fertik, president of Democrats.com, the host of the two calls so far, views them as a step toward getting their reports out to mainstream news organizations.
The Times article is also the inspiration of my earlier post "The Return of the Food Chain Monster".
Lucianne.com's Must Read comment on the Times article: "May this clueless little band find comfort in the Tooth Fairy and Santa, too"
