The new wave politicians

I have never been much of a political guy myself but living in D.C. has forced me to interact and see politics everywhere. This is 2008 and we are witnessing what is probably one of the most interesting presidential campaigns of all times.
This because of the circumstances that the US is going through. But from a technology point of view, I have noticed and many of you might have also, the Internet is a huge part of it. Every candidate has their own website and many of them even have streaming videos on them.

Here is a video you might enjoy, many of you might have seen it, if not, well here it is.


Its facinating to see how people need to adapt to our changes and learn our ways when my whole life I believed that I had to learn from what was happening already. Today it seems as if we are the new future, people that know how to work a computer and blog, express themselves.

The last thing i want to leave you with is this thought. The person who probably is designing these sites, and creating the videos and pictures is probably somebody my age (22) or not far from it, who never knew how much power comes with knowing how to upload a video.

Sources:
The selling of a president
How the web polarized politics

Streaming videos, the new political trend

It has come to my attention that in the last couple of years, streaming videos have become an important part of the political world.
For those of you who don't know what streaming video is please click on the link bellow and hopefully that will help you understand it.
I'm sure you have all noticed that in the past few months the political world has implemented these techniques in order to attract our generation, a generation of internet addicts.

This first video is made by celebrities supporting Barack Obama. If you watch this video and the next one that you can view "We are the world," which many of you might know, you will find similarities, but the main difference is that in this case, Barack Obama's was only made popular by word of mouth and the millions of Internet hits. This is new trend and this is one of the many videos that follow this trend. Having these videos as much a part of a campaign is just as important nowadays as rallying on college campuses.

We didn't have anything as massive as these videos in past campaigns and I wonder what would have been the result in the 2004 elections if viral videos would have played as an important role as they do today.
I am anxious to see what role this plays in this years election and how it will affect its outcome. I try to follow candidates sites to see if they upload any streaming videos and in most cases they do.
Here are some of the candidates web pages where you can follow up on their "video campaigns."

• Barack Obama
• Hillary Clinton
• John McCain

The links listed above will take you directly to their multimedia pages and there you can see ho important streaming video is for candidates.
I encourage you to visit some of the following sites to see what role videos play in their campaigns.
Sources: Al Gore's other project