[Campaigns-l] changing politics

[Jimmy Wales]

Joe Daverin wrote:
> I totally agree with this, except that I'm not quite so frustrated as
> some of you guys sound with the thing so far. To get anything truly new
> going will take time. As I've been futzing around on the wiki, I've come
> to the same kinds of conclusions that have been voiced here.
> Specifically, that discussions about specific races are probably going
> to be too quiet or too loud, that candidate information is widely
> available elsewhere, and that there's only 6.5 million (approx) forums
> to discuss political issues.

Exactly.  What I am interested in us doing is figuring out how to go out
and actually get the campaigns themselves involved in using wikis for
organization, etc.  To actually take seriously the new tools.

Us discussing politics and doing a voter guide and that sort of thing
are great in a way, too, of course.  But what I really want to see us
putting at least a big portion of our effort into is forcing campaigns
to take notice.

> I guess if I were to make up a
> buzzword-laced meaningless tagline I would say that a non-participatory
> campaign works to influence people while a participatory campaign works
> to involve people.

Buzzword laced, yes, but not sooo meaningless.  I more or less like it. :)


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