Obama 2.0: The Look of Direct Democracy

Like many people, I am excited about the possibilities for change that the Obama presidency embodies. As in his campaign communication, Obama's transition communication has been cutting edge and fabulous at producing a consistent image. Take, for example, the excitingly accessible transition site his team has produced: change.gov.

Access. This site symbolizes democratic access and community.

First it is simple, a two column structure with nine tabs line the header:home, newsroom, blog, learn, agenda, America Moment, America Serves, Jobs, About. On the home/arrival page, you find yourself staring at and being stared at by Obama, who is poised to address you thanks to Youtube. The newsroom, or press releases from Obama, actually appears on the home page, below the video.

The blog encourages you to  "Watch Your Weekly Address now," and true to the participatory genre and thus expectations of blogs, it asks the visitor to "then send us your questions or ideas about how to fix the economy." It sounds right, except you can't post comments. And cynics who have tried to write legislators in the past, will be wary of the sincerity of the suggestion. It will probably be considered like focus group and survey information in order to craft more scientifically messages to mass and niche markets--I mean, uh, voters.

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And ye shall be saved by the light: obama 2:3

this is great. have fun with it. http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

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New Edwards Website

Visit this new website for Kentucky for Edwards
http://clouse.ryan.googlepages.com/

It is my first shot at creating a website and I wanted to let others out there to look at it and give me feedback.

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New website in town

There's a new website in town promoting Bill Richardson for President. Check it out and leave a comment. He's a great man with more experience than any other candidate.

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The Phonebook is here, The New Phone book is here!

Well, We've been busy all summer.  At Fairs, and Picnics and town hall meetings and banquets, getting the message out one voter at a time.  Some of you have been telling me on this Blog to "update the website", "update the damn website" so finally, here it is.

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