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Around the Tubes - October 6, 2007

  • MTV and MySpace are partnering with LaVibra.com to offer streaming translations of their candidate dialogues.
  • Down With Tyranny profiles Andrew Rice, a Flaming Lips Fan from Oklahoma who wants to be the youngest person in the Senate. Rice is challenging Global Warming denier Republican Senator James Inhofe. (The Starburst is a new feature. Click on it to read all about Senator Inhofe's record.)
  • The League's New Mexico chapter got some great ink this week.
  • Democrats Work has an innovative idea they are deploying in the Colorado 2nd Congressional District. The group is sponsoring a straw poll among Democratic Primary opponents with the catch that instead of voting, candidate supporters will be asked to donate canned goods and coats on behalf of their candidate. Dubbed the "Coats and Cans Primary," the winner will be the candidate whose supporters collect the most donations for the community.
  • Al Gore's immensely popular Live Earth organization is now sporting the Rock the Vote Voter Registration Widget. It would have been nice to capture registrations during the concert, when attention was at its height, but this is still a fairly exciting partnership.
  • Finally, IDPI has released a new report: Poli-fluentials: The New Politics of Influencers. I haven't yet read the report, which is pay-for-access, but it doesn't seem all that new if one is to judge by the abstract. Basically take The Tipping Point, and Robert Putnam's analysis of two personality types - machers and scmoozer - and you've got this report. In a nutshell: Some people are influencers for networks of people who think about things in a similar way. You must reach those people in order to influence their network. Some networks and people overlap, allowing you to create bridges between multiple networks. People have been talking about this for years - yes, even in politics.
October 6th, 2007 3:10pm
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