In my grad class ‘Politics and the New Media’ we have been reading various pieces on campaign web design and general do’s and dont’s of internet writing/blogging.

I decided to put some of these do’s and dont’s to the test. Well…ok…maybe just one - keeping your internet writing short.

Two days ago I posted two pieces on Blogcritics.org: Hillary Clinton is a Lesbian? and John Kerry Please Stop Calling Me. The Kerry piece was short and the Hillary piece was a little longer, but still far from “long”.

Then today I posted a VERY long piece: Machiavelli, Bush, and the War in Iran (Yes, Iran). The post is a paper I had written for a grad class, reformated with links and broken into shorter paragraphs for easier web readability.

I also posted all of the pieces on the dailyKos (which is down right now so I can’t put in the links).

So far, the short Kerry piece has gotten 28 comments and the medium piece has gotten 78 comments. The long Machiavelli piece - 1. In all fairness, the Machiavelli piece has only been up an hour or so.

What I find to be most interesting though, is the Machiavelli post on the dailyKos got 4 comments almost immediately. And the posts were not “that rocks” or “good post” but rather indepth responses about specific points in the piece.

So this just proves that there are all sorts of people out here on the internet. Many (to most) may like the soundbyte media we’ve become accustomed to but there are others who do like long, involved pieces.

So when we are planning our websites we can’t forget to include a little bit for everyone out there!