{ Friday, February 16, 2007 }
Obama has been getting flack from denizens of the net for his site's clumsy rollout and breaches of netiquette, viz. Fred's "That's not how you do it, Obama" and Scott's "Overheard in the Future" but it's kind of like showing up on the first day of school in the wrong clothes or writing your first post to the mailing list in all caps. The Flickr logo on Obama's site made the Flickr team smile, since they're using the old Flickr beta logo. Clearly they're Old Skool.
This account was opened by the Hillary Clinton for President Committee (not her official campaign). And John Edwards, if this is really his site, has had this Flickr account for over a year, has over 300 contacts, and has joined a bunch of Flickr groups (and his people have posted to them!) Impressive.
On the Republican side, I didn't find anything by Sam Brownback, Mitt Romney, or Rudy Giuliani. And no John McCain, Chuck Hagel, or Mike Huckabee. But this is all just getting started.
LINK | 10:44 AM | TB
There are elections in Ireland later this year and the Labour Party has an impressive flickr photo stream http://www.flickr.com/photos/labourparty/ since November 2005.
The Irish General Election takes place sometime in the next four months, (it hasn't been announced yet).
john o neill | February 17, 2007 12:09 PMDunno if he uses it himself, but Edwards has linked to that Flickr page in mail to his list.
billg | February 19, 2007 4:22 PMWith Flickr pix galore and Google's suggesting to use archived data to check back on politician promises I want to be optimistic.
However we have very short and negative attention spans, so I worry that all the extra media will also translate into more angles for deception, negative campaigning, and pandering to our stupid human trick tendencies to care more about candidate hair styles than their military or budget reforms. The internet is great but it's not fixing ... us.
Joe Duck | February 24, 2007 6:18 PM{ Post a comment }
"Almost candidate" Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana had a Flickr account starting in April 2005.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evanbayh
bayh_guy | February 16, 2007 4:36 PM