Kelo ran a story this morning titled “Dude to Dad”.
Maybe our esteemed governor and state representatives should do something like this . . . wait, the only Republican in the state that understands internet technology is Pat Powers (And he’s really a closet Democrat). Nevermind.
Now, in the 21st century, President Obama has found his own fireside equivalent, launching an online town hall meeting Thursday where he will answer citizens’ questions about the troubled economy and his efforts to fix it.
“We’re going to try something a little different. We are going to take advantage of the Internet to bring all of you to the White House to talk about the economy,” he says in an introductory video on the site.
Bush was internetiotic – to say the least
The Republican party isn’t exactly Internet savvy. That’s no secret. This has been a source of personal frustration for me for a very long time. Unless the GOP evolves as the party that can successfully utilize the Web, we’ll continue to lose influence. I think nothing confirms this fact to be more true than this recent election. I don’t claim to be an expert on mobilizing voters, but a significant number of the readers on mccainblogette.com, my blog, were between the ages of 18 and 30, a key demographic that either party would want. Many of the established Republican strategists told me that young people would not visit my web site. I used to categorize many of the advisors in my father’s campaign into one of two groups: those that “respected” the Internet and those who didn’t. It was a running line between me and my friends who worked on my site.
Better call up Pity Pat Powers, he’ll show you how it’s done (but don’t bother with his contributor friend Troy unless you have unlimited server space, he’s KINDA wordy.
“I don’t mind my internet footprint – besides, I like the traffic it brings to my Web site, southdacola.com,” said Scott L. Ehrisman, 36, Sioux Falls cartoonist, artist, graphic designer and rabid blogger.
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“I Google my name about once a month just to see what is up and have never seen anything glaring,” Ehrisman said. “I’m a big free-speech person, so it does not bother me to have stuff out there on the Internet.”
Googles me, apparently I own a hog farm in Pennsylvania
2012 is going to be a great year!
I hope it happens while I am in Belize.
“I’m not going to make it to work for the rest of the year, the Sun Gods are angry.”