Not Just Another "How Obama Won" Article

by: wizinit

Sat Jun 07, 2008 at 08:32:57 AM CDT

Obama Rising: Installation Art

by: boatsie

Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 20:00:56 PM CST

The Gates, 7500 saffron-colored gates  frame the pathways in NYs  Central Park ...

Running Fence, a 241⁄2-mile, eighteen-foot-high fence of rippling white fabric stretchs through  CAs Sonoma and Marin,disappearing into the ocean ...

The Umbrellas, 3,100 umbrellas cover 30 miles of countryside in California and Japan ... 

Obama Rising, 1 million Obama "O's" rising in Iowa. January 1-4, 2008.

Just picture it!

(reference: The Christos' Passion )

One Million Strong starts "Facebook Fire"

by: psericks

Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 08:22:55 AM CST

On Monday, I posted on One Million Strong about top advisers to the Clinton campaign disparaging Facebook and arguing that Obama's young supporters are not caucus-goers.  If you missed the post, you can read it here.

After cross-posting on MyDD and DailyKos, I was eventually invited to post on TechPresident, a group blog that covers the intersection of technology and politics.

From there, the story was picked up by ABC News' The Note, which quoted my post, followed by another ABC blog Political Punch, Wonkette, and finally was broadcast on CNN (video here).  There is also now a petition on Facebook protesting the comments. 

Rick Klein's post on The Note on ABCNews has drawn over 2,000 comments.  Klein writes:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wants a world where her sealed documents don't matter, but Obama's do (and where her Facebook friends are voters, but his aren't). [...] 

And what did the Clinton camp do to prompt an "Official Petition Against Hillary Clinton" on Facebook.com? Only insult Facebook membership writ large.

This passage from Roger Simon's weekend Politico column from the Jefferson Jackson Dinner provides the context: "At least two of Hillary Clinton's upper-echelon advisers, Mandy Grunwald and Mark Penn, were decidedly unimpressed [with Obama's showing]. 'Our people look like caucus-goers,' Grunwald said, 'and his people look like they are 18. Penn said they look like Facebook.' Penn added, 'Only a few of their people look like they could vote in any state.' "

We get the point -- caucus-goers are substantially more likely to have AARP cards than zombie applications -- but why disparage a cohort your campaign is trying to attract?

"Good strategy: A week after finally setting up your campaign's organization to attract young people, tell them they won't vote anyway so their presence is irrelevant," Peter Erickson writes at TechPresident.com. "You can either dispute the idea that Obama has broad support among young people, or you can reinforce and disparage it, but either way you might want to make up your mind first before opening your mouth."

More media quotes and video after the jump...

Welcome to One Million Strong

by: psericks

Thu Oct 18, 2007 at 19:54:28 PM CDT

The Obama campaign is unique in the amount of energy and innovation that it has spawned on the web: people like Farouk Olu Aregbe and Tamer Abouzeid who changed the way people think about the Facebook; Meredith Segal, who in 2006 founded the Facebook group that was to become the official student wing of Obama's campaign; citizen ad creators like lovingj; independent bloggers like sagereader of Think on These Things; assorted Kossacks and MyDD diarists; and, yes, Phillip de Vellis and Joe Anthony.

But until now, all of these independent efforts have lacked a central meeting place.  There hasn't been a central blogroll or a place to recognize those efforts. 

Sponsored by and affiliated with the Facebook group One Million Strong for Barack, One Million Strong was founded with three main goals in mind:

1.  To serve as a gathering place for Obama supporters in the blogosphere.

2.  To bridge the gap between the blogosphere and the energy for Obama on the Facebook.

3.  To provide a forum for discussion of progressive policy, politics, and activism.

Mapping the Obama Blogosphere

While there have been some previous efforts to set up blogrolls, we'd like to develop the most thorough and engaging --- the most useful --- blogroll of active Obama supporter blogs on the web.  I will also be doing regular round-ups of news and commentary on Obama's campaign around the blogosphere.

More than that, I hope to review and profile various bloggers and online grassroots efforts. 

If there are active blogs that we've missed, please feel free to add a comment in this thread or to send us an email at admin@onemillionstrong.us.

Feel free, of course, to crosspost your blog entries here in the diaries.  Let others know what you're working on.  Make yourself at home. 

Help Us Be Helpful 

Lastly, this is meant to be a community resource.  That means that if you have any suggestions about additional features, about our mission or about the direction of this blog, please feel free to leave your comments.  We want to know how we can be more helpful. 

Second, however, that also means that there is a communal responsibility to keep the discussion threads clean and respectful, to be just and responsible in our criticism of other candidates.  Excessive bashing of Obama or the Democratic Party will not be tolerated.

Anyway, welcome to One Million Strong!  Let me know if you have any questions.