Via New York Times – http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28media.html
DENVER — The musician will.i.am, who produced the hit video “Yes We Can” about Senator Barack Obama, calls the Democratic gathering here the first “batonical” convention.
That’s not botanical, as in gardens, but batonical, as in baton and the passing of. The Democratic National Convention is relying heavily on new media to pass on enormous amounts of information about Mr. Obama to friends inside the hall and out, who will in turn pass it to more friends, mostly by way of YouTube, the superhighway’s video conveyor belt, which did not exist during the 2004 conventions….
…This convention was ushered in with a text message last weekend to millions of supporters telling them that Mr. Obama had picked Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. as his running mate. It is to close with another giant texting session Thursday night at Invesco Field, in which the 75,000 people in the stands will be asked to send text messages to friends and family about their experience. Plans for a large phone bank have been downsized, if not scrapped, because of fears it could crash the phone network; besides, some people are uncomfortable cold-calling strangers.
