Update: Bloggers, DIY Filmmakers Capture S.F. Olympic Protest. F.B.I.: Lieberman 2006 Crashed Its Own Site. “Cyber-attack” was friendly fire episode. Queen Rania of Jordan opens communication with the West via Youtube. The Invisible...
A Pulitzer ain’t half-bad, my friend: online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas joined a distinguished list of Post reporters hit with Pulitzer prizes this week. He’s one of several reporters cited for work on last year’s...
This just in from Bergen County, New Jersey: online politics has hit town and the locals are taking to it with gusto, like a guido to gold chains. Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and blogs all make an appearance as North Jersey Record reporter Matthew...
Trust in Peers Trumps the “A-List,” Study Finds. Definite implications for political marketing. Act Blue’s Record Take. They’re raking it in for candidates. Online Call Tools and the 2008 Campaign. Detroit Mayor Is Charged...
Check out this brilliant bit of promotion and branding from conservative site NewsMax, which has been around since the first internet/politics boom in the 90s: This ad appeared in Monday’s Marketing Vox News, which is an email newsletter aimed...
Post-Politics Online/pre-SXSW Quick Hits extravaganza. Does Good Design Matter? Todd Zeigler’s excellent follow-on to our Politics Online panel. C.f. lots of POLC coverage at Capitol Valley and Tech Daily Dose. Trusting Politics 2.0 Can be...
Cross-posted on techPresident Update from the Politics Online Conference: some quick numbers from Patrick Quinn of PQMedia on how candidates are expected to spend their money online in 2008. First, online spending should total roughly $73 million at...
Update: Primary Season Signals Adoption of Online Ads by Political Campaigns. “Not only are those ads relatively inexpensive; they’ve allowed often cash-strapped campaigns to determine whether their dollars were well spent, before voters...
But it probably wasn’t the video you expect — not the now-legenday Yes We Can Obama anthem, it was the relatively dry piece below by Stanford professor and potential Congressional candidate Lawrence Lessig: Like its Will.i.am music video...
Man, politics moves fast these days: the New York Times story linking John McCain to lobbyist Vicki Iseman broke Wednesday night (on the paper’s website, natch), and by 2:30 the next afternoon, I’d already received a fundraising email...