Okay, so “notworking” is far too strong of a term, but I couldn’t resist the catchy title. TechPresident recently did a brief review of Hillary Clinton’s new Facebook app, mentioning that it’s pretty good but that it came around a bit late. This got me thinking about Obama’s Facebook app and the my.barackobama.com social network. [...]
Check out a great post by my friend Justin Hamilton, explaining why Hillary Clinton is pretty much done. I was thinking about writing something similar, but I figure there’s no need to re-invent the wheel. I differ on a couple of the specifics, but he’s pretty much got it. Obama’s lead is [...]
So, my question is, what does it take for a website to become the next big thing? I recently launched polfeeds.com, which syndicates the RSS feeds produced by politicians. I thought (and still think) that it was a pretty good idea. It makes easily accessible a lot of information that a lot of people [...]
No time for a full post right now, but Barack Obama just broke a million donors.
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No, no, I know what Facebook is, and I consider myself pretty adept at using it. Facebook the company confuses me. More specifically, Facebook’s designers confuse me.
I suppose the thing that baffles me most is that they don’t utilize the full width of a 1024×768 screen. Their current design creates just a [...]
I just went to the Obama website and saw their donor counter. They’re very close to 1 million donors. I went back an hour later and it had increased by about 1000 people. It seems to have slowed down a bit now. I checked it 5 minutes later and it had [...]
Last week I attended a panel discussion called “The Uncharted Political Terrain of Campaign ‘08 with Trippi, Walter.” The title is pretty vague, but it was basically a discussion of the use of a new type of politics that has risen in the ‘08 U.S. Presidential election (and an interesting although seemingly tangential presentation on [...]
Check this out: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Join_Barack_Obama_s_Campaign_Staff
Obama for America is looking for two short term employees to work on the e-mail team. Oh how I wish I could get the time off.
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So… I’m going to go out on a limb and call Louisiana for Obama before the networks. He’s ahead fairly significantly in the exit polls, and with about a quarter of the precincts reporting, he’s up 13 points. I imagine this lead will narrow (probably 6-9 point spread), but he’ll maintain it.
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Being married to a Lutheran means that I’m more aware of the Church calendar than my low church background would belie. Thanks to my wife’s influence, I’ve decided to give something up for Lent. I wanted to pick something that would have a definite impact on my life. I thought (ever so briefly) about foregoing [...]
