Conservative Social Networking

I think the reason the right hasn't been able to use the 'net to arganize the way the left has is that conservatives have been slow to social networking.

Compare JohnMcCain.com to TeamSarah.org. On JohnMcCain, you can find a lot of great information and get ads and e-mails but you can't design too much of your own content or connect to other users. In contrast, TeamSarah operates like Facebook. You can create your own page and find friends and all of that. No wonder it has tens of thousands of members already.

The danger of using a networking approach is that you get just about anybody on your site. So Obama has antisemites and 9/11 Troofers and all sorts of offensive people on his presidential campaign page. If the media cared to vet him at all, this would be a huge scandal. But with good editing (and Obama has cared as much about editing as he has about credit card fraud) you can keep the crazies out.

I think the new conservative blogosphere should catch up to social networking, and anticipate the next step. Obama has had help from the Facebook guys--who are our Internet entrepreneurs? Can we recruit any?

Note: I originally sent this message to Soren on Facebook to prove the point.