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Great work, Paul... I am blind copying a few Obama-friendly
friends, so they are aware of our efforts.
Dear friends, I apologize for the informal nature of this email...
Please read the message below. Paul, Sara, Laura and Fred are
colleagues of mine in academia. Paul is a professor at the University
Michigan. Sara and Laura are professors at Carnegie Mellon University.
Fred is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and a former Clarkie.
Paul has put together a site called smearbusters.org, which uses a
crawler (search engine) to find sites, mostly blogs, that have posted
smear messages on Obama. The method is proving to be extremely
effective but the site needs volunteers to go to those blogs and refute
the smears. We need your help in this regard.
Could you please disseminate this information through your blogs and
social networks and ask people to please volunteer? Also, if you know
any reporters, could you inform them of our efforts to see whether we
can get some hits in the mainstream media?
So please spread far and wide... Thanks so much for your help with
this! :-)
Yosem
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Paul Resnick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We spoke this summer about an idea I had for spreading responses
to
smears. It took a long time to get it going, but we are live at
last.
smearbusters.org spreads counter-responses to smears against
Obama. We
use a search engine to find sites, mostly blogs, that have
posted
smear messages. For each one, you just have to figure out how to
post
a response and then post our suggested response text (or tailor
it to
the particular site if you
think that will be more effective).
We have 200+ instances of smears waiting for responses, and
we're
finding 'em faster than our volunteers are fixing 'em, so we
need more
help. If you feel like fixing a few, check out
http://smearbusters.org, and please pass the request on to
anyone who
you think might want to help
out in this way.
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