More Americans relied on the Internet this year for campaign information than ever before. Personally, I set up several widgets on my iGoogle homepage that directly linked me to some of my favorite Web sites. I especially like Electoral-vote.com and am still reading it daily even though the election is over. After all, how many [...]
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It seems that the Web 2.0 professionals see the election in a way that supports my blog of a few days ago. The Web 2.0 Summit is a wrap. What most interested me was a report from the conference published yesteday in Infomation Week. I was especially appreciative of Ariana Huffington’s observation, “The McCain campaign [...]
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The day after the election some people are realizing that we are ushering in the first American Presidency 2.0. Mitch Wagner says in Information Week that it may well mark the end the era of the television presidency that began with JFK and begin the age of the Internet presidency.
There has been a lot of [...]
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In so many ways the 2008 Presidential campaign is about Web 2.0 versus Web 1.0. It is, in essence, the new versus the old. I don’t mean that in an ageist sort of way. It is about new ways of doing things versus the old school of thought.
Barack Obama’s campaign began with community organizing which [...]
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The 2008 election is coming upon us rapidly. I’d hate to let it pass by without some commentary on the use of emerging media by the campaigns as well as independent content from supporters of one camp or the other. But first, I want to talk about an overall view of the Obama Campaign for [...]
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