http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/techcrunch-finds-obama-site-bug/ The Bivings Report (TBR) is a source of news, insight, research and analysis on the web-based communications industry. TBR content is posted, created and managed by internet strategists, media/communications analysts, web developers, designers and programmers, all of whom are employees of The Bivings Group. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:12:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/techcrunch-finds-obama-site-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-151367 Does User-Generated Content Work for Political Campaigns? » The Bivings Report Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:45:19 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/techcrunch-finds-obama-site-bug/#comment-151367 [...] I say no. Barack Obama had a mini-controversy a month or so back and I’m sure people are scanning through the Edwards and Obama blogs looking for outrageous content written by users. But you know what, I don’t think it matters. On these sites, the user generated content is clearly marked and attributed. The official content is the official content and the user generated content is the user generated content. It is really easy to tell the two apart. I think we are getting to a point where reporters and regular citizens are smart enough to know the difference. As Mike Turk and others have mentioned, Republicans worry about this stuff a lot. They need to relax. People are smart enough to understand what is going on. [...] [...] I say no. Barack Obama had a mini-controversy a month or so back and I’m sure people are scanning through the Edwards and Obama blogs looking for outrageous content written by users. But you know what, I don’t think it matters. On these sites, the user generated content is clearly marked and attributed. The official content is the official content and the user generated content is the user generated content. It is really easy to tell the two apart. I think we are getting to a point where reporters and regular citizens are smart enough to know the difference. As Mike Turk and others have mentioned, Republicans worry about this stuff a lot. They need to relax. People are smart enough to understand what is going on. [...]

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