TechPresident.com: Even More Tech Detail on the Race
In response to my post 2008 Presidential Technology RaceMicah Sifry wrote in the comments to let us know about TechPresident.com, "where we're tracking not just how the presidential candidates are using the web, but how the web is using the candidates. Some features: we're scraping their MySpace pages to track trends in presidential friending...we're delivering a live feed of citizen photojournalism culled from Flickr...we're looking at how they're using search (would you believe the Republicans are taking more advantage of buying keywords than the Dems?)...and we're about to post a detailed look at their presence on YouTube."
This is great stuff. Micah helped us out with the Digital Democracy Teach-In at Etech in 2004, and he really is one of the most astute observers around of the intersection of tech and politics. This is a site I'm going to watch.
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Thanks Tim! I'm glad you remember the 2004 Digital Democracy day; it was really terrific (but I really don't deserve any credit for that, I just attended!).
Ping me offline when you have minute--I'd like to fill you in on http://www.SunlightFoundation.com. We're trying to fulfill all your "lazyweb" requests for transparency in government...
Micah
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Steven Hodson [02.14.07 06:29 AM]
while I think that all these things done to track what Presidental contenders are doing to appear web savvy but really this stuff is really kind of passive and has no really lasting helpful effect past the big day.
Far more effective wold be a longer term project that tracks the promises made by those in the running, let people vote; or other wise slice and dice, on the likelihood of promises being kept and then after the election holding the winner accountable for the promises.
That would be effective people power of the web and longer lasting.