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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