After having lurked on this site for a long time, I've just recently started posting here. I'd be the first to admit that the quality of many of my posts on here is not up to snuff with that of a majority of the excellent posts that all of the good folks on this site put up on a continual basis. However, I must say that being a blogger on this site (and occassionally the Dean blog) is just about the most empowering exeriences a person can have. Dean has talked about starting with people "the great american conversation." I believe that this conversation is already going on... on blogs such as this all over the web.
Blogging is truly partipatory democracy at its finest. If Kos or someone else posts a story or poll on here, you can trust that absolutely every angle that that story or poll will be analysed from every perspective possible (well at least from a general left leaning perspective). Where else do you get that kind of discussion and level of analysis. It truly is amazing.
I firmly believe that blogging is the only way that we are ever going to rescue this country from the throws of Faux News and the conservative (i.e. mainstream) media.
So, in that context, I must say that my biggest frustration in the world is reading an article on CNN or Yahoo or Drudge or some other internet news outlet and not being able to post comments on it. Why shouldn't the public be able to comment on statements made by some hack reporter in an article? The quality of the posts on here is generally just as good as anything some reporter could write (and without the "benefit" of editing). I think this would create a climate much more open to objective analysis and would cut way back on the sensationalism that dominates the media today.
Think about it though. What if Faux News were required to allow public comment on the garbage they put up on their web site? What a wonderful world that would be.