Internet Politics 2.0
We seem to have moved beyond the ‘gee the Internet is a great way to meet people’ phase, into the Post-Dean-Yell (yeeehaw!!) era of American Politics. In many ways, Web2.0 has found its way into the political arena.
Up here in New York State’s 19th Congressional District (aka, Heaven on Earth) we have Take19, a group of Democratic party stalwarts, activitists, Deaniacs and others determined to wrest the congressional seat from the useless (Republican) current occupant and elect a Democrat. Disclosure, I’m a member of Take19.
Note our tool of choice … not an online petition, a messageboard or email list, but a blog. There are similar organizations in other CDs also using blogs to organize and promote their causes.
And on the other Coast, former VP candidate John Edwards is meeting with bloggers in anticipation of a run in 2008.
What does it mean. Not a whole lot. Or maybe the tools are begining to mature and we’ve only seen a hint of what they can do.
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