Let’s just hope that Fox News has a blood disorder and bleeds out on the floor.

“I think defeating Fox — and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news — is very important… I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.” Cenk Uygur

Forget about all the other concerns that we all may have with the country right now, and lets look at who is the best Presidential Candidate for our industry.  Everyone has their own reasons for voting or in too many cases not voting but there is one thing that the readers of this blog and myself have in common.  We all work in the web industry.  Whether we are web developers, designers, seo’s, markerters, etc…  The internet is our ‘domain’ (get it) and we have to protect it, do what’s best for it, and promote it.

Let’s start off with a very important topic, Net Neutrality.  Net Neutrality is supported by Obama and it’s designed to keep YOU in control of what you see and do on the internet.  Broadband Carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc…) are attempting to take that control away from us and start charging website owners for preferential placement.  Essentially the broadband carriers want to create a highway where sites will be delivered to your computer much faster then other sites.  If you can’t afford to pay the extra fees to be on this highway your website will be left out and be delivered at much slower speeds.  This will limit what we can see and do and literally discriminate against smaller companies. Net Neturality is VERY serious, it’s the way the internet has worked since it started and we have a responsibility to protect it’s integrity.

For more information on Net Neutrality follow these links:
http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality
http://www.savetheinternet.com/=faq

If you haven’t guessed by now this post is promoting Barack Obama and while the following topics may not be a threat to our industry like Net Neutrality is, they do bring up some solid points.

For the first time in presidential history we have an opportunity to vote someone into office who really gets US (see what I did there, us and U.S.).  Obama is the first presidential candidate to really utilize the internet, social media, and viral marketing to deliver his message.  Obama has a website dedicated to delivering his message and raising money by blogging, podcasting, and streaming his speeches live to everyone who wants to listen. He has 1,904,236 supporters on Facebook, 83,783 followers on Twitter, and 545,756 friends on MySpace.  Even Michelle Obama has 116,469 supporters on Facebook. McCain has a presence in social media as well but it’s much smaller and more retalitory then innovative with 539,224 supporters on Facebook, ??? followers on Twitter and 101,740 friends on MySpace. Obama is on countless more sites and has also accumiliated 16,432,938 views on his YouTube channel. I can continue down this road for days, but I’ll save you from that.

We need to invest in infrastructure, we gotta rebuild our roads, our bridges. We have to build broadband lines so that every community in rural America can get the internet at high speeds. We gotta invest in new electricity grids so we can get that new energy from wind farms to population centers from solar panels to places that need them. – Barack Obama at the Jacksonville Florida Rally 9/20/08

So what’s the point?  The point is that Obama is apart of the internet community, he utilizes it for his message, and his fundraising but he also uses it to connect.  The connection he has made with his supporters through online media is revolutionary for a Presidential Candidate.  Obama understands the importance of internet freedom and online communication.  He’s backing Net Neutrality and will continue to support the web industry as President.

Hopefully this post will convince you to go out and vote for a candidate that will protect the integrity of our industry and will continue to support our growth in the future.  I have a surplus of examples why Obama is the best candidate for President but this website is not the correct forum for them, but I welcome any and all of your opinions via comments.

I became very aggravated with the fact that I couldn’t find this skit anywhere on YouTube or other sites. Every clip I saw was of a news station covering the skit. I finally stumbled upon the video here “The Huffington Post”.  I put it on my site to offer it to anyone who wants it.  I don’t want to write a post that has nothing to do with web building so… “Meta Tag!” that’s webby enough… Enjoy.