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?

A post over at Social Media Today talking about Iowa’s budding political blogs.

During the ‘06 election cycle, I was baffled about why more candidates weren’t running ads on local political sites, since they’re usually quite cheap, often on the order of $25 or $50 per week, and they’re reaching a very tightly targeted audience.

It seems like we just need ot find the right audience for our sites - then find the advertiser which fits.

Wired magazine posted this article “Web 2.0 Project Taps ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ to Probe Presidential Contenders” last week and although it seems to have a bit of the youtube debate flavor - it could prove to be very interesting.

The web-hip “community-driven” presidential debates touted by the television networks have been a disappointment so far. The events may use voter-submitted videos, instant messages and e-mails, but all that packet juice is poured into the same old, tired broadcast formula that appoints journalists as the arbiters of which questions candidates are asked — and relies on the usual small circle of pundits to analyze the answers.

We’ll have to keep an eye on it and see where it leads.