From Twitter and Flickr to YouTube and the blogosphere, tech-savvy Gov. Deval Patrick is burning up cyberspace with a cutting-edge use of new media - boldly going where few politicians have gone before in taking his message straight to voters.

“In this time, if you don’t have a presence through some of the new social media networks, then you’re missing something,” Patrick told the Herald in a sit-down this week. “I would say in some respects, it’s overtaking or certainly supplementing traditional media.”