Flexing a Little Blogging Muscle

A friend of mine is a radio talk show host for an AM radio station and brought up the topics of blogs on his show this evening. His basic contention was that blogs are not useful, powerful or read. He doesn't have a blog because he does not believe it is a valuable use of his time (that is...no one reads them). He wanted to know if he was wrong or misinformed.

Now I know of the power of blogs, have seen newspapers corrected by blogs (Little Green Footballs is a great example of blogs catching what the media doesn't), I've seen the media turn to blogs for information for stories...I've seen blogs influence things such as the International Freedom Center. What I'd like to do is give him a little taste of the power of blogs!

So, if you have 10 seconds and an email address, I'd like to send him some emails from bloggers and blog readers. I've set up the link below to automatically create an email from you to him, CC to me (I get an email sent to me as well) with the subject of "Are Blogs Powerful?" and the text of the email as, "Hi Chris, I heard through blogger Holly Aho that you were questioning the power of blogs. I'm a blogger/blog reader. She wrote a blog post requesting a few emails be sent to you to show you blogs are read and listened to. Here's my email!"

As the emails are CC'd to me I'll keep a tally of how many are sent and keep you updated. I'd like to have a few thousand sent to him - that would get the message across! (As we're friends he'll forgive me the massive amounts of emails - he'll probably enjoy it! lol). I figured that it's better to simply prove a point than debate the issue. I think this will do that nicely.

Here's the link - Email AM 1500 Chris Krok (View Update below!)

Just click the link and hit 'Send'. It's that simple!

Let's see just how powerful blogs really are!

UPDATE: I received this email from Chris tonight:
"No worries, point WELL taken!!
I'm worried about my home PC crashing, to answer your question about how many received, so if you can please "make 'em stop", I would appreciate it!! (all work emails get forwarded to home)."
He went on to say he hadn't read them all but they were friendly and interesting from the ones he has gone through. He did also say, "THANKS!"

I told him to be fair and mention it on his show tomorrow. So thank-you everyone for being willing to help - it just proves blogs are powerful and well read! Awesome!!!