I really don’t get why Scoble is going to cover the Edward’s campaign. Apparently this is paid for by PodTech - but why? Edwards, besides not getting nominated anyway, is a marginal figure at best and a completely useless item to carry on a tech show. Basically, Scoble is wasting his time, or worse, he is getting sucked into the dark political underbelly of America and will never find his way back home to Maryam.
Scoble has no expertise in doing anything political - he is going to be so easily manipulated by the machinery, it won’t be funny.
Michael Gartenberg has some more wisdom to offer on this:
One this is for sure in the next election. The biggest mistake a candidate can make is going to be underestimating the influence and power of bloggers. The second biggest mistake will be those who
overestimate what they bring to the table.There’s a fine line here and it’s going to be an art on how candidates can make best use of blogs and bloggers.
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“marginal figure”?
Are you nuts?
Yeah - I think I will stick with that. Edwards is going to be at best a marginal figure in the next race. I got tired of the “two America’s” theme two years - looks like is is running on the same idea again - it won’t serve him well. The field is pretty crowded this time around. I don’t think the party is going to go for somebody who already lost once.