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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
 Anyone ever connect the dots on the prescience of the NH primary? It can usually pick the winner because it kills (via funding and expectations) all candidates that aren't in the top two. It is a self fulfilling prophecy. In terms of what the Dems did tonight in my birth state: we lost it. Bush will win. Damn shame.
10:38:58 PM 
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Are Giuliani and Romney, relative moderates, the future of the Republican party? Jeb looks like the Ted of the Bush dynasty.
4:56:48 PM
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New worm sweeping the net targets SCO. The second superpower in action against rogue companies.
4:40:43 PM
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NRO. More Republican attacks on Edwards. This is the guy that can take the White House from W for the next 8 years. The Republicans know it. Why don't the Democrats know it? I think the old guard does. If Edwards gets the nomination, Hillary and Gore don't have a chance in 2008. This is crap. Our need is immediate and shouldn't be held hostage to the machinations of future candidates.
4:26:35 PM
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What are do small financial donations signify in the new Internet-enabled campaign logic? It's not an opportunity to buy TV time, which is pretty much useless. Rather, it is a way to get people to lock their vote in. The Internet is very fickle. People can switch at the flick of a mouse. When they vote with their wallet, months before they go to ballot box, there is a good chance they will show up. How else can Internet backed candidates increase the switching costs of early supporters? Any innovative ideas out there?
4:13:45 PM
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New data shows that we are falling farther and farther behind other nations in broadband deployment (we are now 11th). This should be a factor in the elections. Who lost the bandwidth race? It is the new space race and the best way to grow high quality jobs into the next century (across all business segments). Let's turn on the lights and see what creativity, technology, and new business opportunties spring forth!
3:58:11 PM
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Clay Shirky just doesn't get it. Social technology was great at organizing the Dean campaign. It provided the basics: activists, money, and visibility. However, it was never going to be any good at getting out the vote via direct interaction with prospective voters in Iowa, NH, or anywhere else (at least for the next decade). Not nearly enough people read weblogs, aggregate RSS, or know what Paypal is to have it be a factor in a primary or a general election. A better discussion is whether or not the organic application of social technology (Dean) created a chaotic outsider campaign organization that wasn't on message enough to motivate voters (that don't participate online) at the voting booth.
9:11:40 AM
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K-Logs post on Wikipedia I made late last night.
8:53:16 AM
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RSS ads. Someone is finally trying to put ads in RSS. It may be a little early for this and it is unclear how it would change the look/feel of your feed. Also, there isn't any "about us" link on the site to find out about the people that put this together.
8:52:16 AM
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Mike Walsh caught some more comments that indicate that the Bush machine is most afraid of Edwards.
8:26:25 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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