Archive for the ‘Politics and Technology’ Category

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This week we sit with Dan Tynan, a blogger for sites such as Computerworld and discuss how YouTube is affecting a candidate. We also delve into the mass amounts of user-made content is out there and how it can help or hurt a campaign. Finally, we talk a bit about Hulu, Saturday Night Live and the impact it has on parodying the election.

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This week we take Technology and Politics to the voting booth - well, sorta. Garlin Gilchrist II talks about what you can do to vote early. Garlin is a part of knowhowtovote.us.

One topic that was brought up was the law to allow you to leave a job to vote. This is a law by state - NFIB shows us what the law is by state.

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This segment of “Politics and Technology”, we talk with Jamie Miller of Battlegroundflorida.com. The subject is Advertising and compaigning over the Internet. Jamie discusses the first email campaign he ever set up and what we can expect for future campaigns in a local or larger campaign.

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An interesting dilemma is that nowadays we can electronically donate to a politicians’ campaign. While donations cannot be used as a tax write-off, there still needs to be some accountability for where a politician is getting their funding.

This week we talk with Adam Beeson - former Political Analyst in the state of Illinois - about accountability of the donations recieved. We also talk a little about “Sign Hijacking” and the instance of the sign on ustream.

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