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Punditry Poised To Proliferate
The following guest entry was written by Janice Obuchowski, former head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Bert Halprin, former chief of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau. Obuchowski is president of consulting firm Freedom Technologies Inc. and Halprin is a partner at law firm Halprin Temple.
One of the most interesting changes which technology – and the Internet in particular – has brought to this election season is the multitude of blogs. Within the past two cycles, these have replaced traditional media as the prime source of news. While years ago, people marveled at watching the news in "real" time on 24/7 cable news channels, people today demand knowing things in "preview" time. There are already several "pre mortems" of congressional races available in blogdom based on analyses of absentee/advance precinct voting patterns
If, as some suspect, traditional polling organizations come out tainted from this election, we expect that bloggers will be setting up polling alternatives by 2008. The phenomenon of YouTube and other narrowcast video in general will grow, and present a growing challenge to over the air paid political advertising. In addition, a combination of the near universal availability of analytic tools and a way to communicate with the world may lead soon to a situation in which there are almost as many election analysts as actual voters.
Posted by Andrew on November 7, 2006 12:55 PM | Permalink
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