- I just caught Susan Finkelpearl cheating on us with Democracy in Action! Moreover, she’s brazenly flaunting her Tips (for Sprucing up Your Website), and in public, too!
- Does User-Generated Content Work for Political Campaigns? Todd Zeigler takes a gentle sip of the Kool-Aid: “It seems to me that truly allowing your supporters to carry your message for you will ultimately result in more supporters, more donations and ultimately better online results”
- More Second Life marketing skepticism. Wagner James Au says, “To play in Second Life, corporations must first come to a humbling realization: in the context of the fantastic, their brands as they exist in the real world are boring, banal, and unimaginative.” Sounds like a Friday night in Georgetown to me. (A Bivings Report find).
- Blog P.I. tweaks his Magnum moustache saucily before looking at which candidates are buying Google ads on their own names AND those of their rivals (sneaky — me likee).
- A look at two niches in the blog-o-rama — an Analysis of Black Bloggers in the Blogosphere and Feminist Blogs: Activism, Journalism, or Masochism (I’m voting for the latter, as always). Via F-email Fightback.
- A YouTube for conservatives. Wonkette wishes them well: “Good luck, guys! We bet Michelle Malkin would make you a video of her pretending to personally kill every single Arab and Mexican! She could wear like a KKK robe over her bikini or whatever.”
- Also in Wonkette, a lesson in why some people should avoid technology, as the Prez tries to blow up a hydrogen-powered car (oh, the humanity).
- More niches, bitches: A socnet for political junkies, launched by Campaigns and Elections magazine (Via David All).
- News from the Edwards campaign: John Edwards Debuts Saturday Podcasts (my mom will have to learn to use mp3s), and also modifies online fundraising practice to be nicer to folks who are sending supportive messages to his wife.
- Tips on tools: Seth Godin says, campaigns need to beware the too-frequent mass email, and Solidariti talks about interactive maps made easier.
- MySpace Plans Virtual Presidential Primary. My man Monty should be a shoe-in.
– cpd
April 10th, 2007
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Catching up on the world of politics after a brief break has been quite informative — when you’re out of the current for a few days, you can get a really good look at the whole river. What jumped out at me today was a bunch of smaller stories — ones that give us a hole-in-the-gym-shower-wall glimpse of some of the changes the political world is enduring.
The first thing? A simple email caught by the Hotline in which John McCain asks his supporters to watch an Iraq speech to be broadcast live on his website. Next, another Hotline item about a (pitifully weak) RNC blast email sent to reporters and intended to paint Barak Obama as a fabricator (ah, sweet lies, the very breath of politics). Finally, the LA Times (via Political Wire) reports on controversy surrounding a “back-channel e-mail and paging system, paid for and maintained by the RNC, [and] designed to avoid charges that had vexed the Clinton White House — that federal resources were being used inappropriately for political campaign purposes.” (Hmmm, too bad it also led them to maybe break laws about government transparency…oopsie!)
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Hey kids, I’m finally recovered from the N-Ten conference last week — thanks to everyone who came to the social media panel Michael Silberman and I put on. It was a hoot and a half, despite the lack of audio, and people definitely came armed with good questions. Thanks especially to Riché Zamor, whose provision of a laptop and a working wireless connection saved our asses, seeing as the hotel wifi was down and our presentations were entirely online….
Lots of interesting stuff happened while I was checked out, so let’s get down to bidness. First off, Joe Biden seems to be trying to be the video candidate par excellence, at least judging from a couple of interesting moves he made last week. First, as Steve Rubel and others have noted, he was the first candidate to prepare a video reply to a video question asked via Jeff Jarvis’s PrezVid site. An actual online conversation between a candidate and a voter! Why should candidates talk directly to the public like this? As original questioner JD Lasica put it on his own site:
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