bytes and ballots

Here's the promised link to the February 2007 Wired Magazine story on Joost.

The LA Times has a story this morning, "O.C. candidate has serious image problem." The story is about a candidate running for an Orange County (CA) supervisorial seat; someone in his campaign, or associated somehow with his campaign, doctored a photo so that the candidate (Trung Nguyen) is shown right behind Governor Schwarzenegger. I just wonder how often this sort of thing happens these days with campaign photos like this.

There is this interesting piece in the Denver Post, by that paper's TV critic, "Politics tuning TV out." Here's a short snip, reflecting something I have written about earlier:

This election year we're seeing a seismic shift in the way TV interacts with politics and politicians. After decades of setting the agenda - influencing how campaigns operate, even defining the choices presented to voters - television is being snubbed in the run-up to 2008.

The Internet is stealing the thunder from the old rabbit ears, forcing the networks to play catch-up.

So far, two Democratic candidates for the nation's highest office have chosen to announce their bids via the Internet. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both streamed video on the Web, in essence becoming their own broadcasters for the moment, making a high-tech end run around old media.

And in a similar vein, there is a piece in the NY Times, "In Politics, the Camera Never Blinks (or Nods)".

There's an interesting story in Macleans.ca, "The Going Negative Myth: No Matter How Many Attack Ads, You Can't Go Somewhere You Already Are." It's got some interesting information in it regarding negativity in Canadian politics.

This is on ZDNet today, "Hillary TV: Will User Generated Politics Get Clinton to the White House?"

The LA Times has a story today, "Attack ads go online and underground."