I think this is the big question raised by the whole Obama MySpace mess. Let us know what you think by voting in the poll below and by leaving your thoughts in the comments.
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Mark Glaser over at MediaShift had an interesting post yesterday where he published an interview with "Mr. Magazine", magazine journalism expert Samir Husni. The interview really caught my attention because Mr. Magazine seems to be advocating the same strategies that we have been writing about here on TBR. The interview is definitely worth reading,...
Continue ReadingWay back in February, I wrote a speculative post about technologies I thought might impact the 2008 elections. One of the technologies I mentioned was Twitter. The Hotline (and David All) noted last week that House GOP leader John Boehner is twitterring (sorry). Today, I stumbled across the recently created profiles of House Whip Eric Cantor and the National Republican Congressional Committee (first committee on Twitter I think)....
Continue ReadingYou know those text ads on the right hand side of Google search result pages? I wonder who is trying to cash in the 2008 US Presidential race. Back in February Michael Bassik over at techPresident did an investigation into which 2008 Presidential candidates had purchased text-ads. I've decided to take a brief look at any site buying ads for searches for candidate names....
Continue ReadingMicah Sifry has a fantastic story up on the battle currently being waged over Barack Obama’s MySpace profile. In a nutshell, a few years ago an Obama fanatic reserved Obama’s name on MySpace and began building a network on Obama’s behalf. The campaign worked with the supporter for a while,...
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