When I first had a look at the new John McCain website I was excited to see that the campaign had fully embraced the power of the Internet, specifically the blogosphere and social networking. It only took a week to make me take back every positive thought that I first had. Now I’m convinced that the new McCain website is flat out broken and was launched WAY too early.
Apart from the technical problems, there seems to be a serious issue with censorship. In my case it appears as though I’ve been turned down for a McCainSpace blog. I applied for one of the blogs the first day the site went live… I think it was about a week ago. I received the confirmation e-mail and went through all of the steps, and here I am a week later with no word on my blog approval.
If Eric Odom, operator of ConservaBlogs.com can’t get approved, then who can? And if they just haven’t decided yet, then who the hell takes more than a week to approve a blog?
Then there is the technical problems. Since then, my account has somehow vanished. Well, it will ask me the security question to try and get a new password, but then it tries to convince me that I’m wrong about where I was born. Go figure.
John McCain’s exciting website seems to have quickly failed the test.
Next.
-Eric Odom
About eric:
Eric Odom is project manager for Blogivists.com. A web strategist by trade, Odom is currently working to develop infrastructure for activists within the liberty movement.
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[...] As a campaign consultant and internet activist I can attest to the direction political campaigns are heading and a LOT of it is shifting to the Internet. Political campaigns such as John McCain’s (by the way I met with his blogger, Patrick Hynes, in DC last week and he admitted that the McCain website was launched with a lot of bugs and was not ready to be public) have fully embraced the power of social networking and the online community, and most other campaigns are beginning to do the same thing. [...]