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- ↑ Feld, Lowell; Wilcox, Nate (2008). Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. p. 77. ISBN 0313346607. OCLC 182662601 . Retrieved 22 April 2013.
