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OBAMA CAMPAIGN BULLIES MY SPACER OUT OF WEBSITE
WASHINGTON TIMES - At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat
Barack Obama's presidential campaign has taken over control of the My
Space page listed under his name on the popular social-networking site.
For the past 2½ years, the page has been run by an Obama supporter from
Los Angeles named Joe Anthony. At first, that arrangement was fine with
the Obama team, which worked with Mr. Anthony on the content and even
had the password to make changes themselves. But as the site exploded in
popularity in recent months, the campaign became concerned about an
outsider having control of the content and responses going out under Mr.
Obama's name and told Mr. Anthony they wanted him to turn it over, the
Associated Press reports. In this new frontier of online campaigning,
it's hard to determine the value of 160,000 MySpace friends -- about
four times what any other official campaign My Space page has amassed.
But the Obama campaign decided it wouldn't pay $39,000, which is what
Mr. Anthony said he proposed for his extensive work on the site, plus
some additional fees up to $10,000. My Space reluctantly stepped in to
settle the dispute and decided that Mr. Obama should have the rights to
control as of Monday night, while Mr. Anthony had the right to take the
contact information for all the friends who signed up while he was in
control. Mr. Anthony referred the Associated Press to his My Space blog,
where he has written that he is heartbroken that the Obama campaign was
"bullying" him out of the page he built. He said the candidate has lost
his vote. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is trying to rebuild his friends
network from scratch and was up to more than 17,000 by midday
yesterday..
http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070503-121045-2527r
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OBAMA CAMPAIGN BULLIES MY SPACER OUT OF WEBSITE
WASHINGTON TIMES - At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat
Barack Obama's presidential campaign has taken over control of the My
Space page listed under his name on the popular social-networking site.
For the past 2½ years, the page has been run by an Obama supporter from
Los Angeles named Joe Anthony. At first, that arrangement was fine with
the Obama team, which worked with Mr. Anthony on the content and even
had the password to make changes themselves. But as the site exploded in
popularity in recent months, the campaign became concerned about an
outsider having control of the content and responses going out under Mr.
Obama's name and told Mr. Anthony they wanted him to turn it over, the
Associated Press reports. In this new frontier of online campaigning,
it's hard to determine the value of 160,000 MySpace friends -- about
four times what any other official campaign My Space page has amassed.
But the Obama campaign decided it wouldn't pay $39,000, which is what
Mr. Anthony said he proposed for his extensive work on the site, plus
some additional fees up to $10,000. My Space reluctantly stepped in to
settle the dispute and decided that Mr. Obama should have the rights to
control as of Monday night, while Mr. Anthony had the right to take the
contact information for all the friends who signed up while he was in
control. Mr. Anthony referred the Associated Press to his My Space blog,
where he has written that he is heartbroken that the Obama campaign was
"bullying" him out of the page he built. He said the candidate has lost
his vote. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is trying to rebuild his friends
network from scratch and was up to more than 17,000 by midday
yesterday..
http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070503-121045-2527r
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