Some interesting speculation on ‘Politics 2.0′ from Mike Farmer On the Bonzai Real Estate Blog…
Imagine thousands of citizens vying for elected positions using blogs, social networks, websites that reveal all their qualifications, vetted by connected users across the country interacting with the candidates on a daily basis. It would be beautiful chaos, democracy in action, a true Greek ideal of citizen participation with our twist of representation in a Constitutionally limited government. It seems improbable but not impossible. One thing is for sure, the candidate who gets connected first and uses political 2.0 tools will have a definite advantage. The candidate who “gets it” will differientiate himself/herself in a new way that people will embrace.
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1 mark // Apr 11, 2008 at 8:37 am
See also this article by
By John Powers, Chicago Daily Observer.
A year ago the New York Sun breathlessly reported that the Obama campaign “hinges on whether the uncharted power of the social networking sites on the Internet, such as MySpace and Facebook.com, can offset the organizational advantages of his strongest opponent”, while the New York Times announced that Rudy Guilliani’s daughter had- gasp-listed herself as a Friend of Sen. Obama on his Facebook site. Obama’s campaign sought to gather 1,000,000 Friends on Facebook, as sort of a showing of Web 2.0 support for the rookie Senator….
http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/just-another-politician-20931/
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