Now the question: Was this American Airlines, or Miami? Fiasco, I mean

My friend Maria over at Sex and the Beach has a horrific tale of how she and her parents were stiffed from a flight to Hawaii. Read it at this link: sex and the beach: American Airlines Sucks

As it happened I saw her at a Meetup (Sorry, it was called a Freezup due to the weather) Monday night and was very surprised, as she had been on Twitter for several days enthusing about the coming trip to see her brother in Hawaii and have a big family Christmas. But there she was at Smith and Wolensky with Stoli helping to ease the pain of AA and MIA. Thank goodness she was amid a crowd of friendly social media icons and followers.

As I ask above, was this just American Airlines, or did this being Miami have something to do with a complete fiasco of customer service?

A Facebook development

This column in Saturday's Miami Herald is a good exposition of your need to get a Facebook account. If Marco Rubio and Beth Reinhard are on Facebook, what's your excuse?

And once you've signed up, check out the Miami-Dade Democrats on Facebook, and sign up for our Group, and become a fan of our Page. A little search will reveal all.

First Facebook president: Obama

If you're still trying to figure out where Barack Obama found success, here's a link to a useful article in Sunday's NY Times Week in Review section. Will he be our first Facebook president?

Regular readers of this blog know I put up similar stuff a couple weeks ago, including a link to The Atlantic article cited by the Times. Here's a link to another analysis, by Andrew Sullivan.

This is new material for political campaigning, and we are trying to fashion our own social-networking links in Miami-Dade County Democratic campaigning. Watch this space for future details. It won't be the whole story, by any means. The idea is to expand impact, enroll new voters, organize more effectively. Next step after all that top-notch campaigning is to use these technical tools in good government.