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May 15, 2008 
As far as Sam is concerned, these could be random shapes, but he does not understand that this is our feeble attempt to force feed academic knowledge at all times of the day to turn him into a super-genius. This is required of all that would like to maintain their good parent status. In order to back off he will have to have grey matter oozing from one of his nostrils and be able to tell us to “relax” in 3 different languages (one of which must be a Latin or Greek, his choice). It is disheartening that despite these efforts he is more entertained by drinking the bath water and yanking his junk. We shall persevere. Dammit.
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May 15, 2008 especially if you are politician using new media to get you where you want to go. Big money presidential politics have learned the good lesson from Deans failed run. Edwards jumped on Twitter early, most of the big names have blogs. [Clinton, McCain] They all have Facebook and Myspace pages. The blogs, instead of writing as obviously ghost written first person, they take “contributions” from supporters, staffers and etc. but it is still just PR snapshots meant to “serve” as internet savvy connection. Then they spam it like there is no tomorrow [like Hillary's twitter is nothing but links to their site], rendering all of its connective goodness useless as you hit the delete but on that “friend”
Obama has had a different spin. His tweets have been absent the fake first person, more informative and far from spammy numbers. They balance between the requisite links back to links to other stuff (beneficial comments) or just simply “We are at…”. They friend you back rather than just gathering a ton of followers and who knows if they actually follow, they have to be checking for the name drop nonetheless. But when I added his campaign account on Flickr to my contact list someone actually wrote back.
Now, to entertain the cynic, it is not truly personal and they obviously haven’t looked at my photos (I checked the stats). Very well could have a rote message that automatically populates my name. But at least they made the effort to manufacture a real sounding message (for my part I believe they actually have a few interns running the web game and really respond) and best of all, they didn’t fake it from Obama. They kept it really, signed by the girl in charge of running the account. It feels more like a real connection. I can’t fool myself that they would let him spend the crazy hours answering back crackpots like me.
But if they could ever figure out how to aggregate that message that I am sure comes back in a real and authenticate way, include it in the coversation on the stump or even tweak policy in response, populist might get a 21st century make over
Just for the hell of it, I asked, via Twitter, if they reply. Will check back if there is a reply.
Update - Obama’s Twitter replied
Cool.
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May 9, 2008 
I have never understood advertising or messages on moving vehicles. I can see the point of semi-trucks getting a dose of advert largeness on the side of the trailers. Park em and they are instant billboards. I thought that the “In memory…” messages were too much. Then I was stuck behind the Jesus-mobile.
The message isn’t offensive but the colors are. A color blind person is going to miss at least have the message and wonder why the hell some whack job tossed random laminate letters all over their car. The message repeats incessantly over the entire car like it has the same effect as subliminal messaging. Instead it has the unintended effect of a Crayola box screaming religious mantras at you in I-4 traffic.
I guess this also makes the car a lifetime purchase. I see no getting the decals off after years of baked on sun love from the Florida sky. Plus what happens if this thing totals out. Imagine the message as you drive by the mangled wreck, “Jesus loves you but can’t teach you how to drive”. Maybe there is faith built into the evil repelling nature of the letters. Or just that the wild colors blind the on coming drunk causing them to veer off into the way of some poor lost, unforgiven soul.
I don’t think Jesus had this in mind when he sent is disciples out to the world.
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