When democracy met the Web

When we consider Kos's own Web site and its numerous links to other blogs, we see something like an expanding hive of communication, a collective intelligence. And the results can be impressive. A writer with the pen name (mouse name) Jerome à Paris, for instance, organized dozens of other Kossacks [Daily Kos members] interested in energy policy to write an energy plan that I find far more comprehensive and thoughtful than anything the think tanks have produced. It's been read and reshaped by thousands of readers ... [A] kind of proto-journalism is emerging, and becoming steadily more sophisticated.

From this NYRB review of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics   by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga. The second author's "mouse name" is Kos.