Most of my blog entries on Election and new media to this point have focused on a particular issue in regards to how the new media has changed the way the election process works in America. However, this time around I thought I would just take a look at how many different places the people running for president have information. A quick look at the front page of Hillary Clinton's campaign site links people to Hillary's MySpace, YouTube channel, Facebook, Eons pageFlickr gallery, and Twitter. While it may seem excessive to try and tap into six different social networks, it pales in comparison to what Barack Obama is doing on his front page. Under the section titled "Obama Everywhere," there are links to each of his pages for the same social networks sites as HIllary, plus links for his pages at Digg, Eventful, LinkedIn, BlackPlanet, Faith Base, Glee,MiGente, MyBatanga, Asian Ave/a> and DNC Partybuilder.
Phew! Clinton and Obama must have full time staffers whose entire jobs are to seek out social networking sites that they haven't tapped into and reach the people on them. It's hard to blame them for wanting to reach as many people as possible, so maybe the problem is that there are just too many social networking sites on the internet!