In Other Words, Kelly Clarkson is Totally a Mac, and Clay Aiken is just a PC.
By Sarah Carlson
March 21, 2007
In case you're one of the few people who hasn't seen the brilliant Big Sister attack ad against Hillary Clinton, here it is:
What I find amusing are the members of the media who are in awe of the power of the Internets -- those series of tubes that can send viral attack ads posted by anonymous film editors with the click of a mouse. What will they think of next?!
Here's a great excerpt from a Washington Post article about this viral ad and how Clinton could attempt to save face:
For David Weinberger, former senior Internet adviser to Howard Dean and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the video is a "meta-comment" of the Clinton campaign."It's expressing frustration and unhappiness with the level of control that her campaign is exerting. It's no more controlled than any other traditional campaign. It's not especially controlled by previous standards. But it's tightly controlled by the standards of the Web. And for a big part of the population, the standards are the Web standards," Weinberger said.
To regain her footing online, the New York senator "should go off-message and her talking points" and post videos and blogs that show "that she doesn't have the answer to everything, that she's made mistakes, that she can talk like another human being." As such the video, Weinberger added, "is particularly effective because it draws the parallel that's apparent to so many people -- that Hillary is to the campaign as PCs are to computing."
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