www.dipdive.com
I suspect this is the company that made the VERY polished and professional pro Obama video at DipDive.com
The Black Eyed Peas, former Kerry supporters, get credit for the music and the idea. See Will.i.am’s blog entry here.
It is VERY well done. And seemingly not covered by campaign finance laws as it was apparently not produced by the campaign. Altho the campaign now features it on its web site.
It is interesting to see how the internet can now take control of a campaign away from the campaign.
It is also interesting how this viral video will blow paid advertising out of the water. It is the “poetry” that Frank Rich, an Obama supporter if ever there was one, wrote about today. Only it is multi-media poetry that can travel the internet as a viral message, infecting at the speed of light. No amount of money spent on traditonal media can hope to achieve this. Sadly, media consolidation has rendered the old media guilty as charged: the bottom line is their only interest.
So it is www.dipdive.com vs the tradional media. Guess who wins?
It is so very interesting to see how far my first ever presidential email campaign has come since 1992. Or how far internet politics has come since our small team put the White House on the WWW in October 1994.
Simply breath taking.
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Of course, some, like friend D. H., prefer:
“I Got a Crush…On Obama” By Obama Girl”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
The point of my post remains the same.
this is the message that the students need to hear–that poetry harnessed by the media, by sophisticated deployment of the tools of visual culture, can be more effective than dogfights, lobbying, big money, etc. etc. Thanks for connecting all these bits–I’m going to lead my classes with this topic this week…best, Jane