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There is a more personal way coming soon ...

richsr — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:07:37 -0400

So, instead of using text messages (aka "SMS" for Short Message Service) you can use MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) for images, audio video & rich text. Soon we will see such announcements including images and a personal audio message, maybe even a short MMS video. -Rich Sr./Cellyspace.com

Barack just emailed me a link to Michelle's speech

stevegarfield — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:28:23 -0400

Barack just emailed me a link to Michelle's speech:

http://my.barackobama.com/michelle

The Google sponsored link still only goes to a preview.

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Have you found a high quality version?

stevegarfield — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:41:27 -0400

Here's a verson on CNN with a pre-roll commercial:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/08/26/michelle.obama.long...

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Email vs. SMS

Luigi Montanez — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:53:25 -0400

Barack's team missed an enormous opportunity to communicate personally, to me, from Barack.

I think such pretense can work in email, where distinct "voices" can be reinforced over time, and where the From: name is easily set. So the candidate emails about The Big Things, the campaign manager about the political landscape and state of the race, the finance director about fundraising numbers, the field director about volunteering, etc.

But SMS is limited to 160 characters, and there is no From: line. The text message wasn't coming from Barack's personal cell phone number. It came from 62262, the campaign's short code. All users know that Obama himself isn't sending millions of individual text messages. They know that the campaign uses a service to do such a thing.

As such, the campaign just cut the pretense and spoke from the campaign voice. They've done the same for their past messages I've received: "Watch Barack and Hillary together in Unity, NH" and "Watch Barack live in Berlin".

SMS is a very restrictive medium, and I think the decision to embrace those constraints rather than act outwardly phony was a good one by the Obama campaign.

In regard to Barack Obama's

LorD — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:53:00 -0400

In regard to Barack Obama's YouTube numbers, Steve Grove is the News and Politics Editor at YouTube. I do not know how long this situation will take to become clarified.

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Liberal logic

Freedomfighter — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:23:54 -0400

Sorry, what ticks me off about Tech President is your so bias in your opinions you have taken on the approach of liberal logic. No matter what McCain does, you will see it in the negative. Puts out a bad blog? He is not tech savvy. Puts out a great blog? He is wasting his resources. Such bias ruins the credibility of this site.

Obama Blog

alexhwilliams — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:39:13 -0400

One thing about Obama - he is not taking many risks. It reflects in his blog. McCain has nothing to lose. He has to try everything to capture the American people's imagination. Obama already did that. And he doesn't have to do it again.

But Obama lies..................

Freedomfighter — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:13:04 -0400

Sorry, take a look at this video and you will begin to understand why people want to pull Obama away from his prepared speeches to see what really is in his head.

http://www.knowobama.org/LiberationofAuschwitz.html

Thank you!

Ruby Sinreich — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:09:14 -0400

Thanks for the reminder that grassroots media can also BENEFIT candidates. Too many seem to think that they all have their own Macaca moment around the corner.

And ditto on the public image of mainstream Jews. The media never seems to depict families like mine: a bunch of Jews for Obama (including both grandmothers)!

David Mamet-like subtitles.

Read Scott Martin — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:44:05 -0400

Second prize is a set of steak knives.

Read Scott Martin

Godwin's Law

rattle — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:36:34 -0400

"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

Apparently Usenet and Democratic politics have a few things in common.

- nick

The "debates" so far...

LonewackoDotCom — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:42:38 -0400

The "debates" so far haven't featured any real questions, at least about policy matters. They've just been puffballs which generate a stock speech. My discussion of the announcement is here.

The only way to select good user-generated questions is described here. That's much different from the 10questions format, because only bloggers (say, someone who's been blogging for six months) and others with reputation to protect would do the voting. And, their votes would be public, meaning that they'd be putting their reputations on the line if they voted down tough videos or voted up weak videos.

MySpace/MTV

Michael Connery — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:36:24 -0400

Townhall style format? They'll be super smart if they take their cues from the MTV/MySpace Candidate Dialogues. Those events have thus far been the high point of voter-participation in a candidate forum.

I've blogged about them a number of times here on Tech President.

Whomever did this

Liza Sabater — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:07:14 -0400

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I can make a guarantee

LonewackoDotCom — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:25:39 -0400

A video that confronts a candidate with a lie and that leaves them stammering for an answer would - without a doubt in the world - catch on big as long as it was promoted a bit using Digg, Reddit, blogs, etc. etc.

The simplest embarassing question anyone can ask Obama right now is, "why did you lie about LouDobbs? You said he supports MassDeportations, but he doesn't. Will you retract your earlier statement?" I guarantee that if someone goes to his appearances and just concentrates on asking that one simple question, gets a response, and uploads and promotes it it will have a great impact and get tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of views. It might even be linked by Drudge or be played on cable TV.

Wimpy questions that simply result in stock speeches will never do good, but tough questions that result in making a candidate look bad will be tremendously popular and will have a great impact.