I am totally a whore for data… (hint, hint - anyone with an account with Nielsen/NetRatings should give me a call).
Brianstorms.com has a great chart based on a time-series of Dean’s signups. I am less concerned about the explanations and more interested in seeing if anyone else has similar traffic data or numbers from advocacy orgs. I would like to develop some baseline data…
(thanks to Loose Democracy for the link.)
It never ceases to amaze me that folks keep thinking that the tech is what moves people, as opposed to the message being the driving theme, and the tech adding a force-multiplier to that message.
Not so at Network-Centric Advocacy. Gotta love ‘em.
the DCCC has finally launched a blog. You can check it @ www.democraticaction.org/blog
good stuff… Perhaps a little over-the-top on the rhetoric, but good.
thanks to Howard Rheingold @ SmartMobs for posting it.
Campaigns Online (from Johns Hopkins) declares internet voting a success… I am a little hesitant. For the first part, due to the tanking of the Dean campaign, there really was very little at stake to persuade somone to attack the system. In a tighter race, perhaps, someone would have more incentive.
Additionally, it would seem that if someone wanted to destroy our election, or manipulate it, they would hold off until it had been widely adopted so that they could have a more devastating/decisive impact.