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I don’t post a lot on politics, but this video by someone calling herself “Obama Girl” is fantastic — well done, and hilarious. Apparently put together by Barely Political, there’s some talk about it at TechPresident.com, including an excellent post on the whole phenomenon of “voter-generated video” by Micah Sifry (hat tip to Rob Hyndman [...]
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(cross-posted from my Globe and Mail blog) Politicians love to show how hip and “with it” they are, by using all those cool Interweb tools like MySpace and Facebook, uploading their videos to YouTube, and even inviting bloggers onto their campaign tours, as John Edwards did with uber-blogger Robert Scoble (although Edwards had a somewhat [...]
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We had a great time (and we hope you did too) at the last mesh meetup, but we just can’t resist the opportunity to get together again — and this time, we’re sending a shout out to anyone from the political side of the blogosphere and Web 2.0 land. One of the panels we’ve got [...]
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From Marshall Kirkpatrick at Splashcast comes word of an interesting development at YouTube: the launch of a dedicated politics “channel,” hosted (if that’s the right word) by news and politics editor Steve Grove, which aims to aggregate all the political video clips that get uploaded to the Tube (so far there are only 10, and [...]
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Lots of chatter about Barack Obama’s new MySpace-style social network, which he just launched in conjunction with the start of his official bid to become the next POTUS. It’s at my.barackobama.com, and it has all the requisite tools of a supposedly Web 2.0 campaign — profiles, blogs, friend requests, and (of course) built-in campaign financing [...]
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