Facebookの広報担当Randi Zuckerbergは、思ったことをずけずけと言うし、しかもFacebookという強力な後ろ盾があることを隠そうとしない。なかなか愛すべき人物だ。
バーなんかのお下劣な用心棒はFacebookのページを消すわよ（これは削除されたがなにしろ笑える）。ところで、Facebookはホロコーストを否定する投書を未だに削除しない。
今回彼女は共和党をけなして、それに対し共和党が反撃した。
先週のStartup2StartupというイベントでZuckerbergは、去年の共和党民主党両党の、大統領候補を選出する党大会で経験したことを語った。そのときのビデオが上にある（提供：Ustream）。
“民主党の全国大会では、ロックスターになったみたいだったけど”とZuckerbergは言った。“共和党の全国大会ではひとりぼっちでホテルに三日も缶詰め、誰も会いに来ないから、誰に会えばいいのってこっちから聞いたぐらいよ”。Randiは、飛行機の中でバークリーの教授から“あなたは世界一パワフルなかたのようだ”と言われた、なんて話もした。
共和党はおもしろくない。2008年の共和党全国大会でコミュニケーション担当ディレクターだったMatt Burnsが、長いコメントの中でZuckerberを”く＊ったれ”と呼んでいる:
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With all due respect, Randi Zuckerberg is totally full of sh*t on this one – at least as her comments relate to the Republican National Convention.
As the Director of Communications for the convention, I can tell you we worked closely with Google/YouTube, Ustream.tv, Microsoft, and countless other companies to create a comprehensive and successful online campaign. Those efforts were recently recognized with five “Pollie Awards” from The Association of Political and Public Affairs Professionals. And we utilized Facebook – even if it wasn’t up to Ms. Zuckerberg’s standards – as part of our overall strategy.
Is it possible Ms. Zuckerberg sat alone in her hotel room during the Republican National Convention because she never actually contacted anyone? Or maybe she forgot about the major hurricane barreling toward the Gulf Coast on the eve of the Republican National Convention? Or maybe she didn’t really want to be around a group of conservative Americans in the first place?
According to the Wall Street Journal: “’At the Democratic convention we were like rock stars,’ Zuckerberg said Thursday to a conference crowd of what could safely be called Democratic-leaning entrepreneurs and investors.”
Wait. Ms. Zuckerberg bashed Republicans while speaking to an audience of her liberal friends? Shocker!
In all seriousness, can Ms. Zuckerberg tell us what the Democratic National Convention did with Facebook – aside from pet their enlarged egos and take them to glitzy parties with the Hollywood elite – that Republican National Convention planners didn’t?
I guess next time we won’t make the mistake of letting the business of nominating our Presidential candidate get in the way of the folks at Facebook being treated like rock stars.
Apologies to Facebook. Our bad.
Randiの話を聞くときは、カメラを彼女に向けたままにしておこう。真相はRandiの言うこととBurnsの言うことの間の、どこかにあるはずだ。Facebookが彼女の口をふさがないことを期待したい。世界一パワフルな人の話は、これからも、もっともっと聞きたいからね。
上のコメントが確かにBurnsのものか、彼に確認のメールを送ったが、でも、文体は明らかに彼のだ。
アップデート: Burnsが返事をくれた:
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YES. I left it.
I LOVE Facebook as much as the next person, but think the criticism was a
bit misdirected. I can’t speak for the McCain campaign because I wasn’t
working on its new media efforts, but the convention itself made
unprecedented efforts to incorporate new media into our campaign. Over the
course of our convention, we attracted 1.7 million unique visitors, and
strategically partnered with Google/YouTube and Ustream.TV to draw an
additional 7 million unique viewers to our content. And the GOP convention
had more Facebook “friends” than the Democratic National Convention. We had
about 10,000, while the Dem Convention had about 3,300.GOP facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/GOPconvention2008Dem facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5209534425Also encourage you to read the following news item:
http://www.gopconvention2008.com/news/read.aspx?id=557
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（翻訳：hiwa）
