Late addition: Community Counts: Real Participation in the Debates. People are stepping up and fixing the problems with YouTube’s debate video process. Why MySpace is for freaks and Facebook is for preps. I KNEW I felt out of place on...
Cross-posted on techPresident. Toward the end of last week, the John Edwards campaign pulled off a bit of a technological coup they got around the inherent limits of raising money via cell phone text message. But here’s the rub: the...
See below for today’s non-presidential Quick Hits. Late addition! RNC snags Yahoo! exec for Web operation. Philip de Vellis has an analysis at techPresident. Christmas With the Romneys: The irresistible creepiness of Mitt’s new home...
Okay, I’ll give the Clinton campaign a reasonable number of cool points for announcing the winner of her campaign song contest through a video that very cleverly parodies the last episode of The Sopranos. Of course, she then stomps all over...
Google is diving into the public policy waters in a very, well, public way the company has opened an internal policy blog to the public and will allow comments from readers. The initial burst of articles, previously published only for Google...
11 Web Technologies Political Campaigns Should Consider. Virtual napalm not on list, tragically. More Blog Woes For John Edwards. Great idea! Let’s attack those bloggers. You know, the guys with free printing presses and unlimited ink. Are the...
This one’s all over the place today, and for good reason it’s sheer genius. Barak Obama has a new fan, and she’s willing to use every weapon available to get his attention. Check out these soon-to-be-classic lyrics:...
In a brilliant combination of technologies, Amnesty International is mixing regularly updated commercial satellite reconnaissance imagery with the web to crowdsource the monitoring of twelve selected villages in the Darfur region of Sudan. The...
Josh Levy raised some serious questions yesterday in a techPresident piece about Obama’s preferred treatment in the launch of Facebook’s new Platform application, which lets users build tools for the Facebook community: But when Platform...
What Kills a Social Media Campaign. Case studies of bitter failure. Amateur charge infuriates blogosphere. “Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys … are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity” (e.politics is proud to...
