Comments on: Obama Has A Crowd of Map-Makers http://www.30secondwords.com/2008/07/barack-obama-ron-paul-or-john-mccain-guess-which-presidential-candidate-has-gathered-a-team-of-map-makers/ Informal Academic Advising and Other Educational Resources Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:21:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: S.P. Gass http://www.30secondwords.com/2008/07/barack-obama-ron-paul-or-john-mccain-guess-which-presidential-candidate-has-gathered-a-team-of-map-makers/#comment-43 S.P. Gass Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:58:15 +0000 http://www.30secondwords.com/?p=57#comment-43 The Low-Tech Times hopes that the volunteer army of GIS agents will not be using their hi-tech methods to help a political campaign target households with annoying uninvited campaign visits and unsolicited mailings. I believe web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis would consider efforts like those as counterproductive to the war on spam. However, I must admit that technology is playing a larger role in presidential politics this year. For example, the McCain campaign just utilized a web spider to sting Obama: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/mccain-campaign.html The Low-Tech Times hopes that the volunteer army of GIS agents will not be using their hi-tech methods to help a political campaign target households with annoying uninvited campaign visits and unsolicited mailings. I believe web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis would consider efforts like those as counterproductive to the war on spam.

However, I must admit that technology is playing a larger role in presidential politics this year. For example, the McCain campaign just utilized a web spider to sting Obama: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/mccain-campaign.html

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