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7/29/03: Wired global

It'll be interesting to see how The World Votes shapes up. This Internet venture by three wired Dutch activists seeks to create a certain global mandate in the next US presidential election, a "what if?" tally of votes opened up to all other populations - of course still just the tiny fraction of those with Internet access. I'm interested to see if this effort gets momentum and how it may change views of the election. I'm also very skeptical of finding any value in the skewed demographic (however "global") that it may come to represent - way more so than the recent phenomena of MoveOn.org and Howard Dean's connections between politics and online culture.

An aside - I noticed that the names of the Democratic candidates are listed in alphabetical order except for Carol Mosley Braun's, which would have been placed first over Dean's.

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posted by jeremy @ 8:46 PM

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