A lot has to do with the hen and the egg. We have talked about it before, for some reason the German blogosphere does not like to rally about political topics in a way that is positive, driving an inititiative. It is good at collectively pointing out and correcting a wrong, but not at getting everybody rallied up to action. Dave Winer’s recent morning coffee notes podcast from an npr-event was a perfect example for that for what happens in America. I have to admit that it all depends on my horizon of course. From where I stand I can see Nico and sometimes Wolfgang speaking their minds, but I have the feeling that even they hardly move anybody. Maybe, German’s are just bored with politics and it needs something like the recent climate change debate to rally them, but even then it seems that people would act more out of self defence than because they actually care about the planet we live on.