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February 17, 2004

Feedster has an interesting thing going on

If you go to Feedster's Politics tab/page/whatever, you'll see a form that, when you pick your favored Presidential candidate, gives you back a little link:

I Blog For:

…to a "custom" Feedpaper with news about your boy.

The "Make a Donation" button links to a PayPal account for donations to the Democratic Party. I don't know what the Bush, Green, Libertarian or Undecided images link to. Don't much care.

LATER: Here's my quandry.
Al-M mentioned that Kucinich doesn't have a PayPal account for donations, and I checked Democrats.org and neither does the DNC. On the other hand is the fact that these are the Feedster guys and quite frankly we can find them if we want to. Finally, I do think giving up a couple of bucks for the cause is a decent idea.

So.

I have TWO "make a donation" buttons. the top one links to the Democratic National Committee's donate-by-credit-card page. The bottom one goes to the PayPal account set up by Feedster.

I don't get credit for any of this, btw.

Posted by P6 at February 17, 2004 11:47 PM
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The ABB feedpaper seems to have pulled up your entries about Sharpton.

No surprises here, I'll be blogging for Kucinich but I'm setting it up for my Kucinich blog rather than veiled4allah because I don't blog much about politics there. The Kucinich blog is much more appropriate to what they want to do.

Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 18, 2004 08:01 AM

Yeah, my Sharpton entries, complete with typo. :-/

I think posting the button tells Feedster you want to be in the mix.

Posted by P6 at February 18, 2004 11:08 AM

I'm actually following up on this because the donation link for Kucinich is not an official donation link. My contact in the Kucinich campaign says that the FEC does not allow campaign donations via PayPal because PayPal takes too long in procesing them and that violates FEC regulations.

Until I find out where the donation link is going to, I'm not posting this on my site even though I think Feedster has a good idea. You might want to check whether Democrats.org in fact has a PayPal account.

Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 18, 2004 03:30 PM

Yes and no. The FEC is not quite clear on this issue. A half dozen national campaigns at various office levels, including Sharpton, are using Paypal. We're scrambling to get the other campaigns to make a decision and expect the results to be mixed. The funds are sitting in escrow at Paypal for the 2- or 3-day interim.

Posted by Scott Rafer at February 18, 2004 03:39 PM

You want to know the truth? It scrolls off the front page in three days anyway.

Posted by P6 at February 18, 2004 05:27 PM

Scott, thanks for your feedback. My source in the Kucinich campaign told me that they had wanted to set up a PayPal account earlier but been advised that PayPal donations would not qualify under FEC regulations because of the delay in processing time. She is a member of the campaign's tech staff and, as noted, had been responsible for looking into the use of PayPal.

The PayPal account given for Kucinich in the Feedster code is [email protected]

The denniskucinich.us domain hosts a blog and a discussion forum, but these are not part of the official campaign website and the webmaster does not hold any official position with the campaign.

I contacted the webmaster, who said that he had not set up any PayPal account and didn't know anything about it.

Do you see why I don't trust this? I like Feedster's idea and I want you to index my blog, but I will not put up a donation link on my website that I don't know where it points to. At best, it's invalid. At worst, it actually sends money to Feedster. I don't think so.

Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 18, 2004 07:51 PM