Is Obama The Technology President?

Did you know that George Bush did not use email for the last 3 years of his presidency due to a discrepancy in his email records from 2003-2005? Everything that the president communicates electronically is public record, so if they’re not communicating freely electronically, I guess they don’t have to worry about it. Now President Obama has been approved to use a special mobile device to electronically communicate with close staff and friends. Does this mean in years to come we will discover his secrets?

Presidential technology steps:

• Communicates on Social Media Sites
• Allowed to submit ideas to Change.gov before taking oath
• Created Technology Innovation Government reform team
• Redesigned Whitehouse.gov – blog, rss, photo gallery and videos
• Launched recovery.gov to support economic stimulus plan

Is Barack Obama the Technology President?

Obama Ads in Video Games

During the final stretch of the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama has strategically placed ads in a variety of popular video games. Among the games that Senator Obama is placing them are Guitar Hero, Madden 09′, Nascar 09′ NBA Live 08′ and NHL 09. This is a first time in a presidential campaign that advertising reached out to another group of potential voters inside the virtual world of video games.

However is political placing ads into video games really targeting a new group? The interesting fact is, according to the Entertainment Software Association, the average video game player is 35 years old, and 49% are between 18 and 49.

Obama started a trend of placing ads in video games. Do you think these ads could sway votes?

Politico

Now that the Olympics are over, the political scene is starting to heat up! If you can’t get enough of politics then check out Politico. This website is currently doing a good job of breaking down and reporting on the status of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign from all sides.

I like that there is a daily Gallup Poll ticker in the right corner of their website showing which candidate it ahead; right now it says McCain is ahead of Obama. There are also a handful of Political Bloggers that are dialed into discussion about the heated topics of the day ranging from political TV to convention chatter. The editorial cartoons by Wuerking are worth a chuckle too.

http://www.politico.com/

Politics To Go

A friend of mine is heavy into the politic scene. Recently he developed a great online system that gets helps local politicians organize their propaganda machine. Believe it or not, the American political world is really just starting to grasp the power of the Internet. The presidential election last year really exploited the power of the Internet with the Dan Rather Blog Incident and the FactCheck.com error that Dick Cheney muttered. These errors could cost a politician thousands of votes or earn a politician thousands of votes.

Now The Institute for Politics Democracy & The Internet is having an event called “How Mobile Technology Empowers Just-In-Time Politics” on September 13, 2005. The event will focus on a comprehensive showcase of innovative mobile technologies that will change the American political landscape. The height of the event will be the release of the book “The Politics to Go Handbook: A Guide to Using Mobile Technology in Politics.” Cell phones, Black Berries, PSPs and Handheld computers are changing the world we live in because they are so portable yet so powerful. Imagine the ads a politician could target on your phone. Imagine the ability you will have to get informed on all the issues. Could the ability to vote on your phone be not that far off? Can we say hanging chads in Florida?

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