Dan Sherman

Fear shortage, hope mongering and Barack Obama

Today, Seth Godin made some very good points about fear mongering. In particular, I like his call that it should be regulated or even banned. Instead, he is in favor of hope mongering.

Feeling inspired by this, I quickly checked to see if hopemongering.com was registered. Not only is it registered, but the domain forwards to BarackObama.com. The domain was registered privately, so I can’t see if it was done by the President’s campaign team or if some ingenious supporter did it for them. But it put a smile on my face.

Never underestimate a small amount of money.