Wednesday, March 10, 2004

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is running ads on weblogs (including this one). The DSCC has a weblog of its own, too. Figuring out the Web early might really matter this year -- close races are won at the margins, so incremental gains in fundraising and other means of support could tilt the balance.  Kos points to an article about the impact the national party campaign committees can have. 3:35:04 PM    comment []

RSS at the tipping point. Good. Now maybe it will disappear -- not go away, but become invisible to the average person reading the Web, a feature called "updates" or somesuch in browsers and blogs. The less visible RSS is to users, the more users it will have. 3:24:09 PM    comment []

The Religious Right targets Howard Stern and "indecency." I'm not a fan of Stern's show. But the agenda of some of his enemies -- including the hugely powerful radio company with close ties to Bush -- makes me even more nervous about government and free speech than usual. 12:43:31 PM    comment []

Internetworking is a huge issue for 2004 campaigns. Physical and virtual networks, new and existing organizations -- how they work together could be critical to the success of candidates for state and national office. Puzzle pieces: Jeff Jarvis says Howard Stern should build a web campaign. Micah Sifry says some traditional organizations are slow to use the Net. Joe Trippi says Dean's online organization didn't mesh well with traditional offline groups. Matt Gross says Dean should endorse Kerry, which would help bring his campaigns surviving webroots along. Kos says the Democratic party structure is processing and using blog-generated information. Henry Copeland asks if a strong NC Democratic party is ready to work with a Web-enabled candidate. 11:18:39 AM    comment []