Memo to Jerome Armstrong

Ruby Sinreich — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:53:31 -0400

Edwards' blog roll is right here: http://blog.johnedwards.com/oac_blogroll. And it's pretty cool, it pulls the latest entries from each blog and links to their RSS feeds. He's maintained this blogroll since the One America days (ie: for a few years now).

Daily Digest: 4/30/07

Joshua Levy — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:07:10 -0400

The Web on the Candidates

There are 10 months until the first primaries, so you wouldn't think there'd be enough material for best-of political video lists... yet there already is. Todd Zeigler at the Bivings Report pulled together the "Top Political YouTube Videos so far [this] Cycle," and even if you're familiar with most of videos it's fun a jog down short-term memory lane. Zeigler includes favorite hits (and cringe-worthy moments) like John McCain's, "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran," Hillary Clinton's use of a Southern acccent, Karl Rove rapping, John Edwards getting his hair done, Congressman Obey arguing with his anti-war constituents and, of course, Phil de Vellis' 1984 "Vote Different" video. The only video that I hadn't seen before was the Obey video, in which a woman whose Iraq vet son can't get proper medical coverage confronts the Congressman about the war supplemental bill and finds him frustrated and combative. It's a long, sad video.

Jerome Armstrong rounds up the Democratic candidates' outreach efforts toward the netroots, and finds that, surprisingly, "there's nothing happening in the way of outreach to Democratic-leaning blogs on Barack Obama's website that I can see. Nothing." Equally surprising is that Bill Richardson is the only candidate with a blogroll; even John Edwards, who Armstrong says has the most active community of any of the sites, with users regularly reaching out and linking to other blogs, lacks one. I'd like to hear a deeper discussion of why Obama has decided to keep his system so closed; he's raising money and generating community on the site, so he's doing something right. But Armstrong finds "his non-existent online outreach strategy very pre-2003, and you are free to defend it. Just don't mimic the latest about how Obama is the new Reagan, because the latter knew how to work with his base."

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Memo to Jerome Armstrong

Daily Digest: 4/30/07