18 Doughty Street
Daily Digest, 3/7/07
Joshua Levy, 03/07/2007 - 10:27am

The Web on the Candidates

Just after techPresident's Jack McEnany posted a review of Mike Huckabee's exploratory site, the site went down (must be all that techPresident traffic!). Upon finding a Go Daddy parked url in the place of Huckabee's site, Todd Ziegler of the Bivings Report wrote, "This is the kind of message you get when (a) your site isn't done yet and you are parking a URL you bought on GoDaddy or (b) you go over your bandwidth limit for the month and haven't put in more cash." The site, up now, was down for at least an hour.

Over at PrezVid, Jeff Jarvis catches up with Iain Dale, creator of 18 Doughty Street, a conservative British Internet TV channel. Jarvis posted a video in which he and Dale chat about American presidential candidates' use of video ("He says Clinton’s Hillcasts are just pieces to camera; 'she’s not interacting with people, she’s talking at them.' He says that Obama’s site is fresh; I say he’s not saying [anything] but Dale argues 'you don’t have to say much; David Cameron didn’t say much' at the start of a campaign... He advises that candidates should not (like McCain) make their videos too slick. And if candidates have blogs, they should join in personally sometimes. 'You’ve got to personalize it.'"). Definitely a site to keep an eye on.

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