Tim Wharnsby of The Globe and Mail talked to Orr and has a good story here.
Direct mail, talk radio, the cable shoutfests — these were inherently conservative technologies, pitched to senior citizens and middle-aged suburbanites.
On Tuesday, Mr. Bethune's voice mail talked about the day's meetings with Transportation Secretary Norman Y . Minetaand others, but he added a personal note.
Look back through your fan mail, talk page messages, and awards.
An assistant chauffeurs him between studio meetings while he answers e-mail, talks on his cellphone and screens film on a 36-inch flat-screen TV.
"There were conference calls, mass e-mails, talking points for the day," a congressional aide said.
The pair exchanged several e-mails, talked on the phone and decided to meet.
"Michael can answer e-mails, talk on the phone, approve designs concepts and copy and artwork — all at the same time," he said.
But its behaviour is not in the same class as Microsoft's systematic campaign against the Netscape browser in the late 1990s: there are no e-mails talking about "cutting off" competitors' "air supply".
MoveOn.org has sent millions of e-mails talking up Mr Obama's budget as "ambitious, amazing and unapologetically progressive .Apart from singing the virtues of the president's policies, his allies are also busy demonising the other side.
