Guess where the idea came from for President Jimmy Carter, nobel laureate, to start a blog? Yep, it was from yours truly. 🙂

The goal was to generate media attention and garner links to the Carter Center’s website. And it worked like a charm. His recent trip to West Africa, chronicled in a blog format, is mentioned on some fourteen thousand web pages, as witnessed by Google (via a search for “carter west africa blog“). All it took was a press release to start the wheel in motion. Booyeah!