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With all the recent buzz about weblogs in mainstream media, weblogs (referred to as “blogs”) are becoming a natural part of the media ecology. Indeed, when the Danish election for Parliament in 2005 was hastily announced, and election-themed blogs emerged all over the place, it looked like blogs would come into play for the first time in a Danish election. During the short election campaign, 52 candidates engaged in blog activity, compared to only one candidate in the 2001 Danish election. This somewhat surprising assimilation of the blog genre was clearly inspired by the blogs of U.S. presidential candidates Kerry and Dean during the U.S. campaign in 2004. From a research point of view, a unique opportunity presented itself: In a political system so different from the American as the Danish, both culturally and structurally, how would the first generation of political blogs be used? And how would these blogs be received by a Danish audienc...