Clinton’s Conversation Doesn’t Scale

After 20 minutes of trying to join in on presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton’s interactive Webcast and running into technical problems, I’ve decided to throw in the towel. You can only hit your head against a brick wall so many times before it starts to get sore.

Senators Obama and Edwards are having a much better time with social media engagement because they’re not trying to take control of the time and location on the Web where the conversation takes place, thereby overloading their own servers and alienating people from their chat with America. They’re letting it flow back and forth naturally between their own websites, YouTube, and other existing online communities.

So far, I’d say Edwards gets two points. Obama gets one point, and Hillary gets 0 points…