update

no further writing done so far this week. planned some more though, and read up more on german articles etc. found a "discussion paper" which i plan to make use of: "wahlkampf in der blogosphäre - weblogs im vorfeld der bundestagswahl 2005" (in german, translates to "weblogs in the build-up to the general election of 2005"). interesting article on spiegel online, also in german ("WAHLBLOGS - Alles viel zu wichtig" / "election blogs - everything much too important"), dealing with weblogs in germany and their effect (or rather: lack of) in politics.