Daily Digest: Obama Steers Clear of 527s
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, May 14 2008
You may be surprised at who some Ronulans are voting for this November; ProgressNowAction asks for your witty anti-McCain captions; hands-down, the best Hillary impression we've seen; only 2% of ad dollars will be spent ... Read More
Obama Looks Ahead to Oregon Primary in E-mail Push
BY Kate Kaye | Tuesday, May 13 2008
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain continue to hit up supporters for cash via e-mail, but Obama for America is going one step further. The Senator's campaign is asking diehards via e-mail to trek to Oregon and ... Read More
Daily Digest: Drafting a Digital New Deal [UPDATE]
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, May 13 2008
An anti-Hillary Facebook glitch; looking for the Digital New Deal; looking at the average worth of legislators vs. American families; White House Rocks and the superdelegate superheroes; a Mediabistro circus will focus ... Read More
Daily Digest: Obamacans Move On To Barack
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, May 12 2008
MoveOn announces the winner of its Obama ad contest; Andrew Sullivan, the web, and the fight against obedience, submission, and authoritarianism; a videoblogger asks, where is Ralph Nader's party and organization?; ... Read More
Obama Delegates Learn To Self-Organize
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, May 9 2008
A Washington State state delegate named Suzi LeVine, looking for an easy way to organize her state’s Obama delegates, turned to free wiki service Wetpaint, which helped her quickly build the Barack Obama Delegates ... Read More
Clinton Going Down, While the Web Dreams of an Obama Win
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, May 9 2008
Clinton is losing friends on MySpace, and traffic to her website seems to be crashing. Meanwhile, the interwebs are having a ball with "When Obama Wins." Read More
Daily Digest: Can We Ask?
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, May 9 2008
Jose Antonio Vargas thinks Barack Obama's early popularity online pointed to his electoral success; Color of Change hits Hillary for "race-baiting"; Al Franken is annoyed by a pesky blogger; the New York Times botches ... Read More
Favorite Videos of the Week: It's Hard Out Here For A Chick [UPDATE]
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, May 9 2008
Ah Friday. Brew some coffee. Take a load off. Let YouTube take over. Watch as Mike Gravel sweeps Obama girl off her feet; as GOOD shows us where the money comes from in this campaign; as Cobra Commander asks for you ... Read More
Daily Digest: The Next Right Gets Grassroots
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, May 8 2008
Conservative strategists team up to produce a new grassroots site for the right; some conservative bloggers are supporting Barack Obama, and some netroots bloggers are going for Clinton, while cats and dogs start living ... Read More
Political Implications of the Cognitive Surplus
BY Luigi Montanez | Thursday, May 8 2008
A new meme is spreading around the Tubes, and it’s a good one. Clay Shirky, part sociologist and part technologist, has coined the term “Cognitive Surplus”. Shirky, the author of the must-read Here ... Read More