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...
Update: Exclusive: New Hillary Fundraising E-Mail! Well, kinda. Lawrence Lessig considers Congressional run. More at Techcrunch, Wired and tPrez. Blogger Joshua Micah Marshall wins journalism award. CNN retaliates by firing American Morning producer...
How the right explains the left’s online dominance. Via Salon’s Blog report. How the Web pushes politics further left, further right. Social Networking Becoming Old Technology In A Hurry. MoveOn to Superdelegates: Wait! GOP’s...