Internet the key to Obama’s campaign success

THOMAS Jefferson was renowned as the first US president to harness the power of print. Similarly, Roosevelt used radio and JFK used TV. And now Barack Obama has become the champion of the internet.

Enabling that to happen was Ben Self, the former computer scientist who served as technology director for the Democratic National Committee.

In Australia last week as a guest of the Internet Industry Association, Self was the keynote speaker at a lunch hosted by search engine group Google, whose local chief Karim Temsamani says Obama used the internet to lower the cost of building a political brand.

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