Wired Magazine just posted an article (Obama Woos Silicon Valley) on Barack Obama’s technology published ahead of his visit to Google in California. (Apparently Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas have all made visits.)

Here’s a quick list of the items in his policy:

1. Big supporter of Net Neutrality
2. Greater flexibility for immigrants with a job (which in this context could mean tech workers)
3. Wants the FCC to redefine broadband
4. Rewards creative use of the government-owned and commercial spectrum to help bring broadband to rural areas
5. Vigorous antitrust enforcement and funding
6. Updated and interoperable radio networks for public safety officials
7. Tougher trade agreement enforcement policy under World Trade Organization agreements
8. Patent reform
9. Protecting US intellectual property abroad
10. Making the R&D tax credit permanent
11. Implementation of new tools and processes to bring more transparency to the executive branch
12. A mandate to build technology to protect children from inappropriate content online
13. Reforming health care information technology
14. Creation of a fund to explore green energy
15. Proposed using Web 2.0 applications to increase government transparency

There isn’t anything too dramatic here. What I think is most interesting is his visit to Google. The Chicago Tribune published an article on the visit this morning (Obama takes campaign to Google).

I have a love/hate relationship with Google. (Which I feel is OK since Google has more of a who-are-you relationship with me.) I love them as a searcher. I get frustrated with them as an online marketer. I’m not sure what to make of them as someone who follows tech policy.

Google has posted videos of all of the candidates visitors on YouTube. (You want to see who plays the Internet best? Check out the differences in views!) They are fun to check out – but what I would really like to see is what Google says to the candidates. Google also maintains a Public Policy blog, which seems outline their political views – but still I’d like to be a fly on the wall in their lunchroom.

At the Blandin Broadband Conference last week, Rep Al Juhnke mentioned that most of the info legislators get is from vendors and therefore can be tainted. I know that one of Google’s main tenets is “do no evil” but still I am cautious of giving one company – even one good company so much persuasive power.