{"id":1996,"date":"2008-02-27T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2008-02-27T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T02:15:13","slug":"obama-and-the-long-tail-fo-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the Long Tail fo Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a talk by David Theo Goldberg who also heads up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchri.org\/\">UCHRI<\/a> (University of California Humanities Research Institute). His talk wasn&#8217;t about networked politics, but he repeatedly mentioned flash mobs as a new political phenomenon and then he went on to praise the long blog entry <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.centraldesktop.com\/index.php?entry=entry080212-062935\">Barack Obama and The Long Tail of Politics<\/a> by Isaac Garcia of <a href=\"http:\/\/centraldesktop.com\">Central Desktop<\/a>, the company whose wiki-like collaboration software was used by Obama to organize California. The blog entry is one of the best explanations of the Obama phenomenon I&#8217;ve come across. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a talk by David Theo Goldberg who also heads up the UCHRI (University of California Humanities Research Institute). His talk wasn&#8217;t about networked politics, but he repeatedly mentioned flash mobs as a new political phenomenon and then he went on to praise the long blog entry Barack Obama and The Long Tail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama and the Long Tail fo Politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}