EchoDitto co-founder and President Nicco Mele was recently interviewed on MotherJones, regarding the changing political landscape, and whether websites will play as central a role in the upcoming elections as they did for Howard Dean in 2004.
Mele, former webmaster for Howard Dean, attested that websites will play an even more central role now than they did five years ago. "Who would have thought five years ago that Hillary Clinton would announce her candidacy for the presidency on the Internet. That would have sounded like a crazy pipe dream from nerds five years ago."
Mele continues, "...one of the most important things that the Internet does is that it levels the playing field in all kinds of dramatic ways. The difference between a $1,000 website and a $100,000 website can be pretty minimal if you have smart people working on the $1,000 website."
To read the entire interview, click here.