Exclusive John Edwards interview: Talking about Social Media and its role in running for President
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Last week, I was invited to ride on Senator John Edwards’s plane as he visited four states (Louisiana, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada) following his announcement that he is running for President in the 2008 election. Here I sat down with him in the back of the plane while we traveled between New Hampshire and Nevada where I interviewed him about why he is running and what role social media will play in the election. Sorry for the poor audio and video quality, my super-dooper HD camcorder was broken earlier. Funny enough, just as I was asking him about what he’d like technologists to do, the battery died on my backup camcorder. So, the rest of the interview is available as an audio file (I was using a backup audio recorder, which caught the funny moment).
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January 3rd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
[…] Amazing video, colleague Robert Scoble interviews potentially the most powerful person on planet earth on a jet flying to several destinations over the US. John just announced his candidacy for Presidency less than 24 hours before. […]
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:41 pm
[…] The Next President of the United States - Scoble Exclusive PodTech’s Robert Scoble was escorting the next president of the United States - John Edwards last week. Robert got an exclusive with John Edwards. […]
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Cool opportunity for this interview. He looks tired.
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Edwards on a Plane…
In an interesting podcast, Robert Scoble sat down with John Edwards in the back of the plane as they traveled between New Hampshire and Nevada and talked about why he is running for president and what role social media will play in the election…….
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Glad you finally got the interview, even though technology was against you!
9 minutes… well that’s at least twice as long as Matt Lauer.
January 3rd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Thanks for posting this. I’ve just recently begun reading RSS feeds and keeping up with your blog. I was impressed to read what you’ve said about your time with Edwards and your take on it.
I’m pretty jaded on the whole politics thing, but I hope Edwards keeps on including normal folks in his campaign.
Good questions too - refreshingly different from the talking points nonsense on TV.
January 3rd, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Wow. It’ll be absolutely amazing if our next president maintains a personal blog — the fact that Edwards is giving insight into his personal side is a major win for him.
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:40 pm
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January 4th, 2007 at 3:08 am
You want to talk about a candidate for the technologist?
John Edwards has introduced legislation to fight spyware and initiated a petition for Open Internet while out of office.
I dont know of any other candidate with such a solid record on technology.
January 4th, 2007 at 10:35 am
John Edwards knows a lot about poverty, after all, he’s helped throw a lot of people into it with:
- his co-sponsorship of H-1b visas,
- his support for illegal aliens,
- his vote for MFN-China
but what about stuff like iraq war and the patriot act?
well, he voted for them too
About the only thing you can say for Edwards is, he spent so much time running for president that he didnt have time to do more damage as senator
You’ve got to ask yourself - ‘what did he do, with the power he had, when he had it?
January 4th, 2007 at 11:47 am
OT - but I have recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows. How can I get these videos to play? It doesn’t matter whether I try to stream or download them…
TIA
February 12th, 2007 at 12:19 am
[…] Robert Scoble of Podtech.net interviewed John Edwards on his reason for running for President and what role social media would play in the election and Edwards had this to say in a video: “… I have developed this belief that whatever change the country… unless the people of America decide in turn that they want change, I think if you try to do it from the top down - it doesn’t work. And the way to do it from the ground up, not just in a political campaign but to bring about real, lasting change, is through youth, through technology, through pods, through streaming video (of) townhall meetings, through answering questions from people all over the country, and engaging them because that’s the way democracy is really supposed to work…” The 2004 US Presidential campaign was the first campaign where the Internet played a significant role in the outcome of the election. […]
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:00 am
[…] August 3, 2007 The increasing use of social media in political campaigning in Europe became especially visible in France’s last elections in Royal vs. Sarkozy, but in the US they really have it down to a fine art. Right now in the US, it’s the race for the 2008 presidential elections and everyone is using social technology, such as YouTube, as part of their campaigns. The internet has created a platform for ‘openess’, enabling people to ‘get to know’ candidates before voting for them, exemplified by the Senator John Edwards’ pod cast run on Pod Tech. […]