Tom Altman’s Wedia Conversation

Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 has posted a cool story yesterday about different new media methods of tracking the NH primaries:

How should I figure out who’s got the best coverage of the New Hampshire primary results, which is being covered by every news outlet and political blog on the planet?

I could got to any mainstream media site, and read the headline article. But which one would be worth my time? Who’s got the inside dope? There were a gazillion journalists in New Hampshire last night — which one should I listen to?

More than likely, from “old media” like TV or newspaper.  But there was a surprising number of “new media” ways to get some of that information.

Mediashift posted a great article yesterday about this called “Iowa Caucuses Blanketed by Twitter, Blogs, Video“

That’s the hard lesson learned by veteran GOP political strategist Ed Rollins, who was repeatedly flummoxed in a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, who hectored him about a conversation he had that was transcribed and sent to a TownHall.com blog by the one other person in the restaurant.

It still gets hard to leverage all of these items when the rubber hits the road - good stuff!

First let me say - I really like and support Ron Paul for the 2008 presidential race…but this is something that I find totally intriguing. It’s a post at Digg.

Urgent! We are NOT going to break Hillary’s $6.2 Mil record

i206.photobucket.com — According to this projection, we are going to raise a little less than 6.2 million dollars. C’mon guys, dig deep and call your friends. A little extra money will result in a huge way the media reacts to this story. Hillary’s record already has been proven fake, but the media keeps spitting that figure out.

This is a post at Digg which is talking about a push to raise money for Ron Paul - and don’t get me wrong…I’m not trying to “ge the word out” about the fund raising.

What blows me away - is in that post there is no mention of Ron Paul, yet people know what the subject is. What other things would this apply to? Interesting.

I’m not sure how much of the jockeying you’ve been following - but there has been an interesting topic I have been following with Republican candidate Ron Paul.

If you look at Paul’s number back in July from a USA Today/Gallup poll:

Neither former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore nor Rep. Ron Paul registered any support.

But, if you look at what online polls say - he’s much better off. (This from a USADaily article)

Polls that have been showing Ron Paul at 1% for months are slowly adjusting to reality with one poll showing Paul at 7.4% in New Hampshire. Paul’s campaign may prove that polling methods are obsolete.

So the interesting thing to me is that much of the mainstream media was so out of touch with reality and not giving the “internet people” their due justice. So it will be very interesting to see what comes of it.

Other Articles/Blog Posts:

• GOP State Leaders Are Beginning to Take Ron Paul Seriously
• Ron Paul Money Bomb Weblog