August 08, 2006
Blogometer PM Extra II
CT SEN X: Innocent Till Proven Guilty?
For once the Lieberman campaign seems to have the bloggers on their heels. With the MSM running with Team Lieberman's hacker story line, the netroots are scrambling to prove they didn't do it. Even sympathetic progressive bloggers are going with the story. hard core Lamonsters are not amused But for once the blogosphere's size is working against them as it is proving difficult for the bloggers to prove a negative. Matt Stoller at MyDD offers this guide for reporters from a "technical contact."
UPDATE:
Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker is still on the story with denials from Lieberman's internet consultant Dan Geary to blogger claims that the Lieberman campaign "are paying $15/month for hosting." Kiel reports Geary claims "they pay a bit more" but Geary refused to comment further. Geary did admit: "the campaign's technical staff wasn't prepared to deal with a malicious intruder. "We have nobody with a security background helping with this," Geary told me. "It's just us, what we know, how we work with our server network."
UPDATE II: DailyKos' founder Markos Moulitsas is now linking to a Wonkette post that tracks down Team Lieberman's FEC filing for internet consulting services. Wonkette has a pdf of the filing and writes:Why the hell is Joe Lieberman’s campaign site hosted by these people (site down — probably not because of dirty deeds, by the way) under the cheapest plan available? And why do Lieberman’s FEC filings say he’s paying $1500 to a different company for web hosting? No, we seriously want to know. These aren’t rhetorical questions. ... We have to assume that Lieberman paid the guys named above (click to enlarge slightly) to find hosting, and “2 Dog Media” went with the cheapest option available, using the rest of their paycheck to buy Ecstasy or whatever Internet people ingest. With Friends of Joe Lieberman like this, etc.Kos comments:
So it's clearly apparent that the Lieberman campaign has no clue how much they really spent on hosting. They handed over $1,500 over the last quarter to "2 Dog Media" (no hit on Google) to do "web hosting and web changes". So this guy, 2 Dog Media, went out and bought the cheapest web hosting he could find, $15/month, to best maximize his profits.
Posted by Conn Carroll at August 8, 2006 03:28 PM
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