Gearing Up? August 20, 2007
Posted by ianmartinez in : Trends, What's New?, Policy , trackbackWell, that summer recess didn’t seem to take long. From the tongue-in-cheek to the strategic, you can hear the opening notes of various blogs’ Hill coverage (or advocacy).
All this comes after an absolute cornucopia of net neutrality blogs last week, after it seemed the issue would die a peaceful death. But what I find most intriguing of all is the confluence of stories on the presidential candidates’ tech standing.
In today’s Communications Daily (subscription only), which ran Friday night, the lede story was all about Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s mastery of the social networking craze, not to mention his support from several former FCC chairmen.
Two former Democratic FCC chairmen are among technology industry leaders supporting presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who is using sophisticated Internet fundraising and social networking tools to engage a broad base of supporters that traditional campaigning couldn’t reach. Obama set his agenda for technology early, promising in his announcement speech to make widespread broadband access a goal of his presidency.
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While it’s still early to predict how successful the effort will be, [Obama advisor Julius] Genachowski said, about 5,000 groups have been created through the networking website and about 15,000 are blogging. “This technology allows people to participate in the process who didn’t have a chance before even if candidates wanted them to,” he said.
The article later features Republican campaigns’ efforts to narrow the perceived tech gap in 2008.
But the tech-politics engine hit full throttle with Tech Daily’s Daily Dose official rundown of the presidential candidates’ tech policies and major endorsements — strangely timed considering the Comm Daily piece ran the same day.
DD’s take seems to be that the candidates could be better versed, and taking more aggressive positions on som e tech issues, but doesn’t seem to skewer any candidate so bad — although former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney seems to come off worst with his confusion of “You Tube” and “MySpace.” Personally, I don’t see the big deal — my old boss used to confuse them all the time.
How do the candidates’ tech policies stack up? Do any of the Silicon Valley endorsements mean anything to you?
Are we catching election fever?
UPDATE: A great rundown of the upcoming primary season from a PR/communications perspective by my old blogging buddy Geoff Livingston went up today completely unbeknownst to me. There really must be something in the air.
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