Blogflict Off to Denver
Starting Monday, Blogflict will be in Denver for the Democratic Convention.
Today, the news headlines are dominated by the Obama campaign announcement of Joe Biden as the VP nominee. As has widely been reported, the announcement was to come via text message. This strategy enabled the Obama campaign to gather thousands of cell phone numbers which they can use for calls and texts between now and November. It was also seen as a modern and chic way to make the announcement. The only problem? CNN beat the Obama text message operation by announcing first that Biden would be the nominee well before the text messages started to arrive.
For the record, Blogflict signed up for the text message alert 10 days ago and apparently the technology isn’t yet perfected - the text message never arrived! Instead, at 1:35am, a text came across from Rob in Florida, declaring, “It is official, it’s Biden.” Thanks to Rob for breaking the news to us, but where was that official text from the Obama campaign? Apparently, not everyone who signed up for the service got the message. Let us know if you signed up for the text service but didn’t get the message.
Well, at least Blogflict can go to sleep at night without the cell phone in bed, waiting for it to buzz with VP news…The McCain campaign seems set on a more traditional announcement (for Mitt Romney) via press release.
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3 Responses to “Blogflict Off to Denver”
I got the message but it hit my phone at 7am. Thanks, by then it was all over the news.
Comment made on August 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 amMccain is going to announce using a telex, but wait, my telex won’t fit in my bed.
Comment made on August 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 amI got the message, maybe I’m more special than you. Also, I live in PA, so being a swing state I get first dibs on all the cool stuff.
Comment made on August 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 amLeave a Comment