Wired’s picked up on a new application called Glassbooth that helps match you with the presidential candidate whose positions are closest to yours. In clever fashion, it starts by asking which issues are most important to you and only then...
Welcome To The Iowa Caucuses, Viewed Online Through Grassroots Lenses. Can’t get enough Iowa? Let’s hang with the locals. Obama Girl, Britney Boy Top YouTube Videos. More significant: Obama Girl makes the AdRants Raciest Ads of the Year...
On the rationality of the Iowa Caucus system: “I’m not saying his refusal to take a photo with Mr. Potato Head doomed his campaign,” Green said of Brownback, who has withdrawn from the race. But who’s to say it didn’t...
At least one presidential candidate is not ashamed to count bloggers among his friends: according to Katharine Q. Seelye at The Times, Mike Huckabee held a little event here on Tuesday to thank the roughly 700 bloggers who, he said, were responsible...
Slate’s Trailhead column picked up a very fun feature on Mitt Romney’s site on Wednesday afternoon — enter your name and a friend’s name, and this interesting Flash application will record a phone message for him or her. The...
In a move to boost relations with the country’s Asian neighbors, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is now posting videos on YouTube — in English as well as Japanese. English is apparently widely used in Asia for cross-cultural...
According to figures from Nielsen, several demographic groups that have traditionally donated disproportionately to Republicans switched allegiances in the first half of the year and became more likely to give to Dems. Overall, Democratic...
The Post’s Jose Antonio Vargas took a look today at a rising political force, Iowa’s local political blogs: “For the most part, the blogging community is small,” says [local blogger Chris] Woods, who blogs at Bleeding...
While stuck at the airport in Tyler, Texas yesterday, I ran across a fascinating history lesson in the comments section of a random Sadly, No article. Produced right after World War II, the short Encyclopedia Britannica film “Despotism”...
A couple of weeks ago, a new application showed up on Boing Boing that at first glance would seem to be a reasonable approach to pressuring Our Elected Representatives: give the system your phone number, and CommitteeCaller will connect you with the...