Remixing Politics

Somebody over at the Bush-Cheney campaign had better figure out this Internet thingy pretty soon, or it's going to be a long, unpleasant online campaign for them.

The first evidence of the campaign's Net-cluelessness was the Bush-Cheney poster generator that came to be called "The Sloganator". This was a web tool, on the campaign's site, that let you create a Bush-Cheney campaign poster containing the slogan of your choice. On hearing about this, any Net-savvy person knew exactly what would happen next. Opponents would discover the site and create posters with disparaging slogans. Contests would be held, to see who could make the funniest poster. And the whole episode would be commemorated with an online slide show...

[Freedom to Tinker]

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