According to hhavensteincw over at Slashdot, there’s a new Google Bomb campaign to get liberal bloggers to associate John McCain with a number of posts and articles that highlight “ugly” things about the Republican Presidential candidate:
“A liberal blogger has launched a ‘Google bomb’ project aimed at boosting Google search results for nine news articles showing Sen. John McCain in a negative light. The Computerworld article notes: ‘Chris Bowers, managing editor of the progressive blog OpenLeft, is launching the Google bombs by encouraging bloggers to embed Web links to the nine news stories about McCain in their blogs, which helps raise their ranking in Google search results. Bowers is reprising a similar Google bombing effort he undertook in 2006 against 52 different congressional candidates. “Obviously, it is manipulating, but search engines are not public forums and unless you act to use them for your own benefit, your opponent’s information is going to get out there,” Bowers said.’”
Via Slashdot, Computer World, Chris Abraham, and OpenLeft
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I am burning through a couple-few seasons of Sleeper Cell from Showtime.
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I found this to be an incredibly interesting topic and shows the power of positive conversation. Not in the “fluffy” way, but in directing the attention to a positive statement about a subject. This is ultimately the most powerful approach to “winning the minds” of the people.
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