A few days ago I stumbled onto a brilliant site called Icon Finder. The web icon search database claims to hold more than 5,000 icons in its index and offers the tool free for anyone needing a tool to help find them.
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Before I go into some inside news that will confirm a HUGE rumor that Homestead.com is FINALLY going to start supporting php apps, I must make a confession.
Digg Community Slams Homestead Servers and Crashes Mine
A few months ago Homestead CEO Justin Kitch posted something that I personally took offense to. The title of the post on his blog was “Maybe you should fire that customer“. The reason this struck a personal note with me is that just a few days earlier I was kind of told this by a customer service agent working in the call center. I’m sure it was just bad timing and I landed on a line that went to a rep in a bad mood, but that day I was sent in circles and was made to feel as if I WAS WRONG in every thing I suggested. The agent/s couldn’t help me and pretty much wrote me off as some irate idiot who was talking nonsense.
I wrote about it and it hit Digg’s front page. I was instantly pounded with tens of thousands of visits that completely knocked my site offline for a good 20 minutes. In turn, the Digg community posted a link directly to the CEO blog at Homestead and they were instantly hammered with traffic as well.
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The guys over at Eventful had a booth set up across the isle from ours at CPAC so I got a few chances to talk with them about the Web 2.0, social networking style project. After getting to know the system and what it is that it does, I put them on my top ten online tools for political campaigns list.
Then they displayed their generosity by putting me on their official blog roll.
Link love… gotta love it!
(I’ll be adding them to mine very soon!)
-Eric Odom
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There is a BIG shift in the way political campaigns conduct election war these days. During the 2006 elections I was contracted to do some work for Sharron Angle for Congress and it was a very educational experience and the race taught us many things about the new direction of political campaign marketing.
In our race for congress we were lucky that the opposition had little experience in online marketing. The reason we were lucky is that I had my hands full with other parts of the campaign and couldn’t spend any time on the website or out and about in the www community.
In the end we lost by about 400 votes, but the knowledge that came from working on such a campaign is something I’m thankful for. I was able to see one of our opponents get ripped to shreds by the online community because he virtually ignored them and his site did everything possible to avoid having to engage the group. At the time, this attitude worked because the social networks of Nevada were limited. Now, however, these networks have gained big momentum and I believe that if we were to see a repeat of that race he would have a very tough time slipping by without getting the online community involved.
The same can be said across the country. With more and more voters and activists moving their networks to the web, political campaigns are forced to move in that direction with their campaign plans and message marketing schemes. I believe we’re witnessing the birth of a new era in US elections.
Political campaigns would be wise to lend an ear to this massive movement of information and there are a plethora of tools that can help them do just that. I’ve compiled a list of what I believe will be the top ten players in internet activism.
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C-SPAN has a great discussion panel running on TV called Political Blogs & 2008 Elections. The panel discussion is sponsored by the Robert Dole Institute of Politics. The speakers for the panel are Erick Erickson, Jerome Armstrong, Scott Johnson, Joan McCarter, and Patrick Hynes.
A lot of the discussion is very general and hardly scratches the surface, but there is certainly a level of wisdom between the group and it shows in the panel dialog. However, I notice that none of the bloggers present the problem with elitism within the blogosphere.
Many, MANY bloggers have talked about the “long tail” of the blogosphere. If you aren’t familiar with the long tail, it’s basically a way of explaining the majority of today’s blogs.
The top blogs make up the head, which represents the largest section of traffic, and the rest of us make up the long tail, which represents the blogs with less traffic and influence. Normally I would give you examples, images and links for such an explanation, but I’m currently on a flight to Washington DC so I have no internet access. I’ll try and add some links in within the next few days. UPDATE: Check out this link for more info on the “long tail”.
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A new website has gone public that is fully Web 2.0 compliant and will probably create some smiling faces within the blogosphere. The Beta project, Open Congress, looks very promising and I’ve already found myself surfing the pages with a certain level of addiction.
The site provides the latest house votes, bills, and news that is aggregated from blog posts throughout the internet. If you’re one who keeps an eye on bills, you’ll definitely want to keep an eye on this site.
Check out Open Congress!
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