Four years ago Howard Dean was getting a lot of buzz for being the presidential candidate who most harnessed the Internet -- for grass roots support, mobilizing ground forces, and most of all, raising money.
Wired Magazine has come out with a piece on the candidate this time around who has "mastered Internet campaigning."
This major-party candidate is "harnessing the power of the Internet to turn (the candidacy) into a powerful rallying cry for disaffected Netizens," says Wired, noting that the campaign is vigorously using Digg, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Justin.tv, Meetup.com, lolcats and MySpace. And, using the Internet to raise up to $6 million in one day.
Who's the candidate? See the Wired story here.
-- Terril "what the heck is a lolcat, you say? A good 'word of the week' ... Find out here" Jones
Feb. 13
Good points all, but bottom line, what good has it done Paul? To my knowledge he’s never been a truly viable candidate, despite raising a ton of dough. (no doubt that has a lot to do with his politics.) Dean was a much better example until he Yahooed himself into oblivion (another facet of the digital age, eh?).
I do enjoy politics but perhaps I’m still too much old school. I get most of my information on campaigns from outside of the Web, newspapers and radio mostly, in large part because it’s so time consuming to comb all the sites out there for scoopage. No doubt digital “means” will only continue to play more significant roles in campaigns, but I’m not convinced it’s there yet.
I’m open to having my mind changed, though.
Me, I don’t have the time right now.
tc brown 2/14
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