Dr. DigiPol

Email is not dead, but it is becoming less effective as people shift to other online communications channels. Campaign websites are not a waste of space, but they are no longer the center of the universe for gathering activists. This is the new online world, a dispersed world where instant messaging, social networks, and SMS text messaging are the new hot communication channels and social networks, blogs, and social media websites are where people gather online.

I have been hearing a lot lately about how we are facing a mortgage crisis of huge proportions. Lenders have overextended themselves with high risk, variable interest rate loans and now people are defaulting on loans in droves. There is a lot of talk about how the extent of this problem is so bad, markets could collapse. A crisis, n’est pas?

As a follower of the presidential campaigns, of course I wondered what the candidates were saying about this serious crisis facing America. So I went to all of their websites to search for what I needed to know. I found some information on Dennis Kucinich’s, John Edwards’, and a wee bit on Barack Obama’s sites. But I found something I did not expect to find.

No search!

I posted a response to question posed by a Facebook friend about the blur between personal and professional life on Facebook. She asked us to post an answer on her Facebook wall… a public space for Facebook members. In the spirit of the question and request for the wall, I am cross posting […]