The Obama campaign has won plaudits for its groundbreaking use of new media, from the 1 million supporters it has recruited through Facebook - the social networking site used by 80 million people - to the 12,000 grassroots groups (such as the clutch of Bay Area train commuters in "Baby Bullet Riders for Barack" ) that have formed on the candidate's Web site. While former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign is credited as the first to broadly use online tools, Dean's campaign manager Joe Trippi said Friday, "If the (Howard) Dean campaign was the Wright brothers, then Obama was Apollo 11."
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Left-leaning bloggers flex muscle in Texas
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
