Monday, November 13, 2006

Book: "Web Campaigning"

The book, "Web Campaigning" by Kirsten Foot and Steven M. Schneider follows the evolution of the use of the web by political campaigns. Politicians like to keep tight control of PR material, but this is difficult with websites and archive crawlers like http://www.archive.org. The website that accompanies the book includes uses Tiddlywiki to present screenshots of the websites underdiscussion. The Wayfinder tool may be used as a "personalizable entry" into the website. The Wayfinder website says:

Wayfinder is a developing resource for students and researchers to use in browsing digital archives. The project's goal is to make the process of accessing archived materials more efficient and enjoyable through the use of tag-based taxonomies and user networking.

Tip o' the hat to Ruzena