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It's Tuesday September the 9 around 9:24PM and

Election '08: The Best of the Worst of Web 2.0

So its day three of the Canadian election. And its really nice to see that the candidates are trying to really capture the best of what the web medium has to offer. They offer tonnes of web 2.0 tools on their sites and a plethora of tactics sure to make anyone rethink the power of web 2.0. At this rate I'll skip the 3.0 and just wait for the 5.0.

1. Conservative Microsite: Notaleader.ca features the hilirious "Do you think it's easy to load websites." This features both the facebook-lite Dionbook (currently down) and a blog for his dog Kyoto.

2. Liberal microsite for Mr. Dion: Thisisdion.ca. Love the "Meet Dion" moniker and the montage of him fishing and playing hockey. He's just like us! (PS: love the contrast between Green Shift and Liberal Red. It's like Christmas!)

3. Self Indulgent videos referencing both website name and purpose. Justin Trudeau's Justin.ca is reason enough to stop letting candidates use the web. On the other hand, its worthy of a 'Smug' award. I'm torn. And of course the interwebs strike back with hilarious results.

4. The Stephan Harper Flickr photostream. Now with 40% more sweater.

5. Liberal microsite #2: Scandalpedia. Of course if the Conservatives are doing a mock facebook, you know the Liberals have to go the wikipedia route.

6. Is Jack Layton really trying to channel Barrack Obama's website. But in orange, green and blue. 2nd prize goes to the Bloc. Duceppe is floating Obama style on his site.

7. Wait. NDP Twitter? You've got to be kidding me. Are you on the edge of your seat yet: "What a great event!! So many people, all excited about the hope and optimism our campaign is spreading… about 5 hours ago from web."

8. A Harper Twitter. But no Dion Twitter. What the? Burn!