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Word of mouse. "usa today" referred to this new trend as e-politics in their august 1999 article on the subject. their piece revealed that there were skeptics of this new e-politics. quote, online politics has its share of skeptics. no medium that relies on voters to take the initiative for educating themselves can ever have the broad reach of tv where political messages intrude unbidden into living rooms. will it revolutionize mix? thats harder to see. so said ari fleischer in 1999 before he be...

The story was written february 1st, 1999. how can there be such a phenomenon as electronic political activism? what is so active about clicking a mouse button when sending an e-mail or logging on to a website? but with $13 million and more than 650,000 volunteer hours pledged to censure and move on, the realm of political activism now must bend its boundaries to include cyberspace. the article concludes by referring to censure and move ons brand of internet activists as "word of mouse." get it? ...

No medium that relies on voters to take the initiative for educating themselves can ever have the broad reach of tv where political messages intrude unbidden into living rooms. will it revolutionize mix? thats harder to say. so said ari fleischer in 1999 before he became white house press secretary. ah, this computer thing, its just a flash in the pan. in all fairness, though, it was not just ari fleischer. pretty much everybody in 1999 was agog with what these california software geeks were doi...