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