Hot on the heels of Barack Obama's my.barackobama.com, his own mySpace like social networking site, John Edwards has thrown down the gauntlet and taken his campaign into the Virtual World. Soon the virtual streets of Second Life will run red and blue with the campaign signs from every camp.
While the RL Edwards Campaign is fully aware of the Second Life efforts, it is truly a grass roots endeavor by Jerimee Richir, AKA Jose Rote. According to Steve O'Hear at ZDNet, the Second Life campaign head quarters will be rolled into the fold of the official campaign sometime next month.
1. Hey, I hope this works out better for Edwards than the hiring of bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan as "official campaign blogmistresses." (For those unfamiliar with these two, they're rather fond of attacking people they disagree with, people of Christian faith in particular, using language one can't repeat on a family blog. When Edwards was slammed for this, they were "fired," then, when he got slammed for THAT, he "re-hired" them, but they've subsequently, apparently, stepped down from the campaign of their own accord.)
Posted at 12:47PM on Feb 16th 2007 by Erbo Evans