Network-Centric Advocacy has a great post regarding an essay from USAF Captain Greg Gagnon discussing the application of network-centric theory to planning special operations for the military.
sweet.
from Dean for America:
You can upload your own photo, and create individualized Forwadable Email postcards. Another GREAT application of easy-to-program stuff that works.
Steven Berlin Johnson points to his great Discover article as well as a very interesting Wired article by Gary Wolf from last month.
Johnson mainly posits that he is interested in what is going to happen regarding all of Dean’s networks if he gets to the White House. He wonders if the Dean Administration will be looking to expand their capacity for information and message to emerge from the networks. A truly interesting question. He suggests that it is the most interesting question to ask right now.
From my perspective, however, the most interesting question is how lower-level races will be netowrking - if at all. Will House and Senate races be deploying networking tools and really getting their supporters organizing online? Will they be comfortable with relatively decentralized campagins?
Granted, as soon as that is answered, Johnson wins, and I will be very interested to see what happens at the White House…
So, i was just thinking:
a) I am a big dumb stupid geek for thinking about work at 1 am
-and -
b) only a year ago, I thought that the pinnacle of campaign internet mobilization was making sure that supporters could find info about the candidate, give money, see comparisons with competing candidates, send letters to the editor, get a lawn sign, volunteer, subscribe for email alerts and print out flyers (incidently, the websites of major candidates in the most competitive US Senate and House elections in 2002 only included about 4 or 5 of the above).
Now, I am fixated on learing more about social-networking software, blogs, and even more crazy crap.
At the risk of being an unwitting marketing whore, I just found out about the site Teleflip.com which allows you to send a text message to any mobile by emailing the phone number @teleflip.com. And it is free.
My question is, will the ad revenue be enough (they attach a short ad to the message) to support the firm? hmmm….