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:: 12.11.2003 ::
I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine who works for the company moveon.org contracted to create the Daily Mislead website and mailings to day at lunch; she mentioned that out of the 500,000 people that initially signed up, almost half of them have dropped off the mailing list since its inception. We agreed that part of it must be overload - people get tired of getting negative emails every day. We agreed that a weekly Mislead would have been a better idea, both in terms of not turning off the intended audience, and also just in terms of a realistic goal for the campaign. Bush&Co. may do a lot of shit we don't like, but that doesn't mean they lie to us 5 times a week.
I'm going to take a brief break from discussing the Spinsanity article today.
A) Please please please make sure you are registered to vote in time for the Presidential primary. If you're not, or you need to change your party affiliation or your address, please pick up a form at your local post office or print one up from Working Assets' website.
B) I went to see Al Sharpton speak at the Commonwealth Club in downtown San Francisco today (thanks Peter!) I was quite impressed with him, actually. More on that later; I want to get some quotes and organize my thought a bit. I'll include a link to the audio once it's online.
C) On a lighter note, my friend Leslie forwarded this link to me; it's a little movie someone made showing the line of people stretching 1km from the entrance to the Tokyo Apple store on its opening day. Things that struck me (aside from the "wow" factor of the sheer number of people in line): the people waiting are calm and polite - no one's cutting in, people are talking+laughing as they wait; and there's no smoking! Maybe my friend Zak, who lives in Japan, can give us some insight on that one.
:: Deb 3:57 PM :: permalink ::
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