Posted on 08/22/2008 10:50:59 PM PDT by no dems
You are correct. However, it is hard to have influence if you are in your local hamlet and talking to your neighbors. The scope of messaging matters as well as the instancy.
McCain is archaic. He may have great people skills ("F--- you. I know more about this than anyone else in the room") but he is definitely behind the times (I am thinking of the 1990s, not now).
I can’t believe those fools actually thought they would be the first ones to find out who soObama’s VP would be. Now they’ll be spammed to death.
LOL!!! Too funny!!!
Simple — McCain’s campaign knows how to text also!
If not, use the internet in some way.
(And remember, that Obamanation never did do the texting — at least as far as I know.)
I am pleased to hear that. Poor execution may subvert the Obama’s campaign’s technology advantage.
McCain isn’t going to deliver the US mail either.
Carter’s biggest downfall and Reagan’s greatest asset was delegating.
Barak “homeskillet” Obama has a lot of learnin’ to do if he thinks anyone is impressed with text messaging.
“The people who signed up for this are the
same morons who install “free” toolbars.”
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And former AOL subscribers?
I’d guess they were mostly young people. I don’t see many mature adults getting worked up over a text message gimmick. Just my opinion...
Many Universities that have contracted with companies to do mass texts for emergencies (New industry after VA Tech) have found that they don’t work as well as advertised.
Pushing too much data through tooo small a pipe-the messages get stuck in a queue and go out in waves-sometimes taking hours to all get out.
This has been a problem with databases as small as 5,000 names & numbers.
I don’t see them using this to any true advantage other than to irritate people.
Wow! That’s good news. Thanks.
No problem
I have had to push my way through a lot of evaluations of these systems and always find they are not very efficient.
Technology may change things, but the concept of Blasting Texts is way overstated for right now.
First of all, texting is not an advantage. Anyone can do it.
If he does text, respect the fact that people are sleeping (coast to coast) and text at noon.
Respect for sleep time goes a long way.
ROFLOL!!! Wonder if Obama will be able to get to his polling place on time to vote?
Heck No! They just won all the text polls Fox News did.
McCain simply needs to propose the one thing that techies want that they don't have, and can't get without him: email portability.
You remember phone number portability...switch from AT&T to MCI or Verizon and you get to keep your same phone number. It's quite popular.
But email doesn't have that.
Switch from AT&T to Verizon and Verizon can't deliver your "nodems@AT&T.com" email address. You don't have email portability.
There are technical ways to *have* email portability, and the free market could probably deliver it (the preferred solution, anyway, but what the heck, this is an election year!) because there is a demand for it (e.g. people leaving a cable service like Charter for Direct TV get burned by losing their Charter.com email address)...but, ideology aside, McCain could force the issue with legislation or tax breaks for implementing email portability between major internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, Charter, etc.
And that would let people swap services at the drop of a hat; which the kids really like to do.
It would instantaneously make McCain popular with the very kids that Obama is targeting with his text message database.
Poof! McCain is suddenly a techno hipster by simply making an email portability proposal.
...and then text the URL to everyone.
Great, those numbers and addresses will be linked to 3000 democrat votes in nov
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