On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Olin Elliott wrote:
>> My choice for President depends on which candidate I think
>> will
>> address all the issues facing the USA consistent with my values, not
>> whether
>> or not he has a cool Facebook page.
>
> Its not whether or not he has a cool Facebbook page -- its whether he
> can understand the massive changes in socieity being wrought by
> computers and the internet, whether he is going to be a President who
> honors science and tries to learn from it, rather than supressing it out
> of ideologicial and religious prejudice like the one we have now,
> whether he is equipped to deal with a world bound ever tighter by
> communicantions, by enemies who have mastered the idea of loose networks
> bound by technology and of spreading their world view via the web.
> Whether he looks outward toward the future rather than backwards, and
> whether he can address, for instance, the kinds of issues of privacy,
> freedom and the impact of technology that Dr. Brin addresses. That's
> why its important that he know how to use a computer. Comparing it to a
> "cool facebook page" is the kind of trivial analysis the media usually
> does.
Besides, the pols *hire* people to do their MySpace/blog/etc.[1] sites.
Whether or not he has a cool MySpace page has more to do with how good a
job someone in his campaign did *hiring* the right person than his
understanding of any of the tech involved.
(I'd have listed LiveJournal there, but I don't know of any pols using
LJ.)
Julia
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