http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20920/the_canvass Comments for "The Canvass" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20920/the_canvass <p>When somebody asks me about how the internet changes politics, I want to tell them about canvassing. Because if the story stops with "how many house parties" or "how many people go to SC," then it actually stops right at the foot of the experience, right before it happens. Internet-enabled canvassing creates spaces that never existed before. </p> <p>I looked up Obama's SC office online, they emailed me the $26/night hotel, I used Google Maps to find the location, I showed up, they used computer printouts from a massive database, and an attached mapquest-generated map, and an attached database generated canvass map, to give me a set of doors to knock on. Eight years ago none of this would have happened. </p> <p>But below the fold is what the canvass actually feels like--the real "internet" campaign. </p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20920/the_canvass">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/20920/the_canvass#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:37:59 -0500 Zephyr Teachout 20920 at http://www.techpresident.com