More on the Baghdad Blog Daily

More on the Baghdad Blog Daily
: Glenn Reynolds points us to a piece of Slate’s David Plotz on the seven habits of highly effective democracy building in Iraq and one of them hammers the point I’ve been making lately about using the web — specifically weblogs — to foster free speech and a free press in Iraq:

5. Use new technology and media to instill the habits of democracy. Democracy is a learned behavior. The experiences of the former Soviet Union and Cambodia are evidence that democracy stumbles if citizens don