MyDD
In 2001, he founded MyDD, a blog which covers politics with an openly Democratic partisan perspective, making him one of the first political bloggers. Armstrong coined the term netroots, is sometimes called The Blogfather for having mentored many other famous bloggers such as Markos Moulitsas in their early years.
In Campaigns and Elections, an early netroots profile in Oct-Nov 2005 as part of the article "Blogging Down the Money Trail", MyDD is credited by the magazine with being "the first major liberal blog." In January 2006, the name was changed to "My Direct Democracy" as part of a site redesign, with a new tagline, "Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics."
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