from "American Diary"
by Greg Joseph
High Wire Music
written March 25, 2007
While reading SFGate, I cought a passing reference to a very cool new political blog called Techpresident.com. The blog site differentiates itself from other political blogs in that it focuses on how Internet technology is being used by the candidates and their supporters to shape the 2008 election. From Techpresident.com:
“The 2008 election will be the first where the Internet will play a central role, not only in terms of how the campaigns use technology, but also in how voter-generated content affects its course. TechPresident.com plans to track all these changes in real-time, covering everything from campaign websites, online advertising and email lists to the postings on YouTube and who's got the fastest growing group of friends on MySpace.”
The blog even includes nifty charts and graphs tracking the number of YouTube subscribers and views per candidate. As of March 25, Barack Obama outpaced all other candidates (Dems and Republicans) measured by total number of views with 2.7 million YouTube views. Hillary Clinton comes in a far distant second place with about 75,000 views. Poor Chis Dodd has only a wee bit over 5,000 views. Do such metrics indicate which candidate is most popular at a point in time with voters in general? I doubt it. I would wager that Democratic supporters are far more active on social networking sites compared to Republican supporters. I will need to research that guess in future blog post.
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