In Wired, Ana Marie Cox profiles the over-profiled Markos Moulitsas, but manages to come up with something interesting: the founder of DailyKos plans to move into the megachurch business. But the Church of Kos will be a little, well, different:
At whatโs arguably the top of his game, Moulitsas says heโs โgoing offlineโ next year, taking his obvious knack for building online communities and applying it to that other great American pastime: sports. And once he gets his network of sports blogs ramped up, heโll turn to building communities in the real world, a chain of giant meeting places โreplicating megachurches for the leftโ โ complete with cafรฉs and child care. Moulitsas has shown he can harness peopleโs enthusiasm, but he says he doesnโt want a leadership role in these โdemocracy centersโโฆWhile working on the mechanics of the sports blogs, he plans to embark next year on building real-world destinations for progressives and liberals throughout the Midwest, โcultural outpostsโ designed to attract thousands of like-minded liberals. โEach one of these would have a vast left-wing conspiracy component,โ he says, like leadership training or discussions on progressive issues.






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