Josue Sierra

This is an interesting article on the political balance in media, and certainly worth a read. Its from a right-of-center perspective. I agree with Adam. The way I see it, let free market forces do their job — we don’t need more regulation on our communication channels.

Its interesting to see the different strategies each candidate on both sides of the aisle is using.

Nielsen has published some fascinating details on how the presidential candidates are spending their media money and what kind of results they’re getting for it. MarketingCharts.com has the numbers;

TechPresident has the highlights.

Interesting article by Dave Morgan, Chairman of Tacoda, that intersects the world of politics, and the clash with rapidly changing technology–some with legitimate use, and some not.

As you might imagine, it’s not easy to draft highly detailed regulatory language that can clearly and effectively attack the bad uses of complex and fast-changing technologies without creating some collateral damage for other legitimate users of the same technologies. That is one of the reasons why nearly every sizeable business and every industry sector spends so much time in places like Washington, working hard so that their legitimate practices don’t get caught up and entangled with well-meaning legislative and regulatory efforts. As the online ad industry continues to grow and mature, it is clear that we will find ourselves having to manage these issues with greater and greater frequency.

Adfero’s Chris Battle wrote a guest column in today’s edition of Roll Call. A former Chief of Staff, Battle encourages Members to get with the times and welcome, not discourage increasing amounts of constituent email.

I’m not a big fan of “big government” so there is no big surprise here.

Turns out that a thriving democracy involves a lot of interaction with the public — driving Outlook-addled staff to the edge of insanity.

The solution on Capitol Hill? Instead of adapting methods and technologies to deal with the changing communications landscape, Members of Congress are trying to block out the changing world from its hallowed halls. Even when I was on the Hill years ago, Congressional offices were woefully behind the times with regard to technology. Instead of responding to e-mail with e-mail, offices would (and still do) go through the laborious process of printing out e-mail letters, putting them in a pile and then drafting a traditional letter in response that would be sent through the postal system.

It makes you wonder: When telephones first became available, did Members of Congress have their staffs translate incoming calls into telegrams?