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Like Joe is so Emo
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 16:36(Posted over on my MySpace blog)
Okay, so, like Im 46 years old, and maybe youre wondering what Im doing here in MySpace. You know, Im kinda wondering that myself. But some friends told me about this great video call Hope is Emo. Its like so moving and everything. It about Words dying and some really heavy stuff like that. 
So, I asked my daughter, who is like REALLY smart, what Emo is. And she started talking about how people who are Emo are really whiny 
and act like theyre really self important by saying all kinds of stuff, but they dont really think theyre all that important which is why what they say is so whiny, and things like that.
And I started thinking 
to myself, is Emo just for kids, or are there older folks that are all Emo and everything. If any of you say that I am Emo I am going to be SOOOOO MADDDD!!1!! 
You know who I think really is Emo?!?!? Joe Lieberman. Like when he says I know some of you may not agree with me Cant you just see some teenage girl in her room typing that? I mean like, yeah. Or when he gets all pouty because someone is challenging him to be Senator. Sure, I know a real Emo would never get to be a Senator, but sometimes I wonder how Joe got to be Senator too, like really.
And now hes whining that if the Democrats dont think he should be Senator, hell try and find some other friends. Hes probably IMing every Republican he can right now.
So, I guess Emo is alright and all that but do you really want an Emo Senator? You should check out Ned Lamont. Hes like so together and everything.
And if you think I really suck at all this Emo stuff and MySpace and everything like that, why dont you go out and do a better job of showing how Emo Joe is? Why dont you set up a Personal Fundraising Page for everyone on MySpace to contribute to?
Maybe Ill just go and write my stuff elsewhere.
My kind of boat race
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 10:31Today, the Personal Fundracing pages for Ned Lamont have launched. The graphic being used is of a boat… “Rock the Boat!”. You can see the current standings on the signup page.
However, since we have some fun graphics, I thought I would present a graphical depiction of the race, showing the two boats that have gotten off the starting line, as well as my own boat.
As more people get off the starting line, I’ll update the list of boats. The amounts will update automatically.
Tim
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LamontBlog
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Frank
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Phil
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Spazeboy
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Eddie
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Kelly
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Me
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Kevin
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Beginning filming
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 06/13/2006 - 12:34A month ago I wrote about ‘Shooting our own Dream Dozen’. This was an idea I had about trying to find a replacement for West Wing, based on candidates for local office. As I worked on the Lamont campaign and saw volunteers making their own videos about Ned, it struck me that we should all be out making videos of our favorite candidates and sharing them online.
Based on this, last night, I recorded Frank Farricker as he addressed the Greenwich, CT Democracy for America group. You can see it here.
It doesn’t have the drama of West Wing, but maybe some future videos will. Meanwhile, I hope to be putting up videos of other State Legislative candidates. Hopefully, some of you will too. If you’re really interested in this, I’d encourage you to check out the Citizen Filmmaking track at the Media Giraffe Project Conference at University of Massachusetts on June 29th.
Blogger conference call with Chris Murphy
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 06/07/2006 - 13:26(Cross posted at My Left Nutmeg.)
This afternoon, Chris Murphy had a conference call with bloggers to announce his new Web Video. He spoke briefly about how they made the video. It was not scripted out but was simply him talking extemporaneously to the camera. There was a desire to not be cookie cutter.
Key messages of the video are to talk about Chris’ deep connection with the district and to focus on the positive. All of this comes in the context of MoveOn’s advertisements and Nancy Johnson’s attacks on Chris.
The Language of online political videos
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 06/07/2006 - 05:00(Cross posted at Greater Democracy)
In college, I majored in philosophy before dropping out. What I know about politics, I’ve learned on the campaign trail, and what I know about filmmaking, I learned from watching Siskel and Ebert as they talked about which way they would point there thumbs.
However, I’ve now been blogging for several years, which gives me a right, if not a responsibility to opine on any subject that strikes my fancy, and so today I want to talk about online political videos.
At the Personal Democracy Forum conference this year, one of the liveliest and most interesting panels was “Is Online Video More Powerful Than TV Ads?” I’ve been thinking a lot about this. The Nedheads group on YouTube has done a great job of gathering videos in support of Ned Lamont, whose campaign I’m currently working for. From this interest, I’ve ended up as a convener of the Media Giraffe Project’s Citizen Filmmaking Track which will be at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on July 29th.
What makes for good online political videos? This is perhaps too general a question, since there are really many different types of online political videos, but it seems as if there are some key ingredients. Like any other medium, they need to get the message across, ideally both directly and indirectly. More importantly, they need to have the sort of appeal that causes people to spread the word virally.
