Emergent Political Advertising

Steven Johnson has a great blog post about grassroots political ads created with desktop tools. He created a cool quicktime mock ad for the Clark campaign. I think some of the Canadian elections ongoing should take Johnson's ideas seriously. It kind of reminds me, there is an election coming up here in Saskatchewan. That being said, none of the Saskatchewan campaigns have even bothered to blog. I won't get my hopes up.

Speaking of election blogs. The Ontario election has turned into a landslide so there probably won't be any analysis of the impact of the Liberal blog and non-official blogs like Warren Kinsella's had. While I am talking about the Ontairio Liberals, they have the most annoying URL. Is it www.liberal.on.ca, www.liberals.on.ca, www.ontarioliberals.ca, www.ontarioliberals.on.ca, www.ontarioliberal.ca, or www.ontarionliberal.on.ca. It is the last one, despite the fact that one the title bar it says, Ontario Liberals. My advice to the Ontario Liberal Party, get all of them for the next election. Oh yeah, www.choosechange.ca also works.