Thanks to the infiinite wisdom of FoxNews and their “experts”.
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I was amazed at how the Obama campaign took what Howard Dean began and blew it up. Embraced the web 2.0 well and effectively. Some might argue unauthentic, but miss the point that it has been the most open and communicative politics at the personal level ever. While Barry might not have been answering the replies, someone was and was on message. Every policy posted and every volunteer given the chance to coop the site for their own expression was unique.
Looks like it might continue. There is a blog, policy papers and a link to the transition guidebook. Sign up with email [for God knows what] and even a job application form.
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So I dig the Obama – Hope image of Obey’s creator, Shepard Fairey [I even made my own Obey parody]. So did a lot of people. And when anything hits it big it becomes the target of our true national pass time: snarky parody. I love it. And Renne Warner has collected the best of those inspired by the original hope and given them to you.
Here are few of my faves:
[by way of laughing squid]
[by way of lonely sandwich]
and this is Fairey’s favorite (and mine)
The real race begins now. I agree with the need for change. I also hear it more live and true in Obama’s message [see last night's speech]. We will debate the details for the next few months. But right now, I choose Obama.
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[from Steven Rhode's Flickr Post]
After Malkin blew her thin topped skull over the scarf of Rachel Ray, what are the right wingers gonna do about this [from rhode's commentary on his post]:
Somehow I think this is just coincidence rather than a strategy by the McCain campaign to reach out to people watching english Al Jazeera (perhaps a more general news buy).
Interesting they use a photo of a younger McCain (I guess to appeal to youth like me watching YouTube)
When you click on the ad, it goes to
www.johnmccain.com/landing/a2.htm?s=google&t=creative1a
so it might be part of a larger ad buy on google
Too bad the left doesn’t have an organized army of screamers commentators like the GOP does, there is enough tit for tat between Obama and McCain to make for a great fireworks show.
I am joining the propaganda machine. Bought stickers. Gonna do it lame and stick it on the car. Give them away. I have several, if you won’t one, drop a comment and I will contact.
designed by ObeyGiant and sold at Sticker Robot
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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