Pure Progressive blogging

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The face of blogging is changing dramatically. Daily Kos, which once was able to sustain itself on ad revenue, has changed to a membership approach because blogad revenues have plummeted in the past few years. Andrew Sullivan is now going to a similar model where his readers are paying his bills, making him independent of any media group.

And yet, if you look at this chart from the Pew Research Center, you’ll see that people are getting their information online more and more:

This includes blogs and blogs that focus on local and state issues along with analysis of national stories have a vital role to play.…