Presidential Progress: NetTrends ‘08
Presidential Progress: NetTrends ‘08
Today, ThinkProgress is launching Presidential Progress: NetTrends ‘08:
1) A comprehensive database of presidential candidates’ activities online.
2) A collaborative research project (that means you) to find the most innovative 2008 web content.
From now through the end of the 2008 election, NetTrends will be tracking how the candidates and their supporters are using the Internet. We’ll be updating the site regularly, and will direct you to the must-see web content we find. There’s also a handy graph making it easy to see who’s utilizing the Net and who’s not.
Why track the ‘08 candidates online? Because conservatives have long dominated the traditional media battlegrounds of radio, television, and direct-mail. With Rush Limbaugh and Fox News leading the charge, they enjoy a “wide-ranging, multimedia apparatus that when tapped will vibrate like a gigantic tuning fork.”
But the media is fundamentally changing, and progressives need to change with it. Candidates who are using new media effectively deserve to be praised, and candidates who ignore the netroots deserve criticism. Moreover, the web will only empower our democracy if we actually use the tools that have been created. We hope NetTrends will make it more convenient for you to get involved in your favorite campaigns.
Check out our database HERE (and other great work being done by TechPresident) — and please share sites and resources that you think are particularly useful and innovative.
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Hold em’ accountable.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:32 amThis should be fun.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:37 amShould be interesting, but most of the presidential candidates really know nothing about the Internet, nor anything about blogs either.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 amthe people associated with this site have been consistently inventive and creative. this is a great idea…it really should help to leverage more people powered politics.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:48 amVilsack threw you a curve. He just dropped out of the race.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:54 amBarack seems to be adapting to the internet the best – check out his website; all nicely fitted with videos and ways to connect to other Obama fans – it appeals to the right audience but still looks professional enough for a candidate.
Obama’s biggest challenge will be getting past his name – beyond that, the walk to the White House should be cake.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 amBecause conservatives have long dominated the traditional media battlegrounds of radio, television, and direct-mail.
This may be one of the dumbest statements I’ve seen on here yet and that is saying volumes. The statement would be true I guess if you don’t count CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, MSNBC and CNN. True Err America went bankrupt but that was because it required free market competition to survive as opposed to NPR which survives from the taxpayers tit.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 amPlease add Al Gore to your tracking. There is a real broad grass roots campaign going on presently on-line to draft Al Gore for president.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:36 amWhy?
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 amWhy?
Comment by Patrick1
Why not?
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:48 amPerhaps TP could compile a calendar of the candidates’ appearances, or at least urge the individual candidates to put such calendars on their sites in a standard format.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:50 amCool. Part of my regular electoral research will now include this effort!
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 amWhy not?
Let me count the ways. First off he is a fake. He is the chief priest of the faux-religion called global warming. Sometimes you almost think he believes it until he gets in his corporate jet or limo.
He is corrupt. Takes money from the Chi-Coms for his campaigns. He must be very stupid cause he lost to George W. Bush who the moonbats think is really stupid.
He tried to steal a national election.
No thanks to the High Priest of the Church of Global Warming.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:57 amHe tried to steal a national election.
Comment by Patrick1
Can you say George W. Bush & The Supremes?
Nope, I didn’t think so.
Sheep.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:03 pmDoing a selective recount in two handpicked counties is stealing an election.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 pmDoing a selective recount in two handpicked counties is stealing an election.
Comment by Patrick1
No, Patrick Star, having your daddy’s buddies on the Supreme Court order a stop to the re-count is stealing an election.
Educate yourself, sheep.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:17 pmOh my…
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 pmWhere to start with Patrick1Cell?
First off he is a fake.
Well there’s an argument filled with facts. Care to define and provide proof of such allegation?
Didn’t think so…
He is the chief priest of the faux-religion called global warming.
Please provide proof that global warming, a crisis resulting from climate changes, is not happening. Also, since you equate global warming to religion, and all religions have a central omnipotent being, please provide name of this particular being.
Sometimes you almost think he believes it until he gets in his corporate jet or limo.
Well, I actually do think he believes it, since he financed and produced a documentary about it. (let he who is without sin cast the first stone)
He is corrupt. Takes money from the Chi-Coms for his campaigns.
Links, please.
He must be very stupid cause he lost to George W. Bush who the moonbats think is really stupid.
Yes, George W.Bush is really stupid (tho I think even he know to use because, and not cause), but Al Gore did not lose the election (something about the popular vote, as well as what Zooey said in post #16).
He tried to steal a national election.
Care to provide proof of his attempted stealing?
Didn’t think so.
No thanks to the High Priest of the Church of Global Warming.
Well, I see the Pre-Pubescent Club of Young Republicans have their talking points for the week.
Smatter, patrick1cell? Snow day for your middle school today?
Run along now
Will all this mean that the smart people finally get to have a say?
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:54 pmIt’s a start, but all this kind of thing takes for a candidate is money. Wes Clark has done several blogs recently on dailykos. When he becomes a candidate, will this provide us with that kind of info? If we want to know how frequently candidates blog, will we have to slog through all of their links, or will we get that info here? I’d like to see the titles of their most recent blogs, and the date posted, as part of this. Whether the candidate answers questions after blogging. Whether it is clear the blog is actually coming from the candidate, and not a staff member.
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:34 pmWHAT A SPLENDID IDEA!!!!! I AM BEHIND THIS MOVEMENT 1000%!!!!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:19 pmhttp://newsmine.org/
News and Document archive source for uncovering and exposing
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:39 pmwith over 10,000 articles and documents
We are heading towards wind,solar and a hydrogen economy. The big companies put out bogus propoganda to keep control of the political elite. Individual energy independence, what a concept. The technology is already in existance to make the change and in time will improve. The candidate that proposes the fastest way to make the change has got my vote. Are you going to divide and compare by issues. Good work, good idea. Thank you.
February 24th, 2007 at 11:44 amWhere is Wesley Clark?
Video
February 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm