The Undecided Voter

With the conventions right around the corner, the polling and race for getting the voting percentage is getting tight.  So early.  VP candidates have not even been chosen yet and McCain and Obama are duking it out over the undecided votes.  I guess the early  bird does get the worm.  
In an Wall Street Journal [...]

Obama Travels. New Meda takes it and Runs.

Now, my headline might be a little bit misleading.  News organizations are running with this story as well.  Anytime a political figure heads to a war zone the public is interested.  However, Sen McCain the opposing candidate and other congressional leaders have spent a lot of time in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Why now?  Is [...]

Lessons From Blogging

There is a website entitled cyberjournalists.net.  Having read an article from the New York Times on up and coming blogs, I found this suggestion particularly interesting.  A website that addresses the issues / feud between the world of blogging and the world of journalism.  The site discuses inner turmoil of newsrooms and how each organization [...]

Microtargeting

For this weeks class we read a series of politically based articles on the use of micro-targeting in political campaigns.  How fascinating.  Although, is it to elementary to think of voters as just consumers?  For that matter, why are we thinking of consumers in such a simplistic manner. 
For instance, as I was reading the New York Times Article on [...]

What’s the point of the widget?

Which one’s will stick around? After receiving the requirements for our blog entries, I started to begin to add some bells and whistles to my blog. Tags here. Links there. Blogstorm. Clouds. Etc.
It seems that a lot of these new bells and whistles won’t last. The useful ones will obviously stay. [...]

Was or Is James Kotecki a Journalist?

Not in the traditional sense, but then again if you compare Chris Matthews to Walter Cronkite, I am sure you see some changes in the industry there as well. 
This is not a slam against either Chris or James, but rather a mere observation that over the years with changing technologies there has been a blurring of entertainment and [...]

Bloggy Blogs vs. News Blogs

In class, we have discussed the top political blogs and their role in the 2008 election.  Recently, I was thinking about the model of a blog and what it’s role will be with in the next five to ten years.  Right now there appears to be a great divided in the progressive technological world of [...]

News Flash: Blogers Like a Technologically Savy Candidate

As we discussed in class, the political world of the Internet is overwhelmingly left.  That was according to a Pew report on the Internet usage and campaigns.   You can see this trend in the Personal Democracy Forum reports we were asked to watch this week.   As I watched each first person video report, I noticed that a [...]

Voter Generated Content

Web 2.0 is about broadening communication.  New applications and widgets are meant to allow content users to be involved in the process.  So, why should we be surprised that this concept has been adapted to Vote 2008?  The short answer is we shouldn’t be. 
Just this year, Facebook, the social networking website played their own role [...]

The First Campaign

Having already read portions of The First Campaign last fall, it was interesting to see how much the election of 2008 had already changed due to technology.   One of the sentences that really struck me was an opening sentence about our world and how it has become a world “where not even the glaciers move at a glacial pace.”   [...]