Daily Digest: 10/24/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, October 24 2007
Barack Obama continues to take hits from the progressive netroots; RedState makes the mistake of banning Ron Paul supporters from its site; new Ron Paul graphs fun; Mashable posts a primer on online politics; Why ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/23/07
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, October 23 2007
The Politico launches a young voter-themed sub-site; Debate Porridge calls the campaigns on a Saturday and finds that most of them aren't working; interesting numbers about the effectiveness of campaigns' web ... Read More
Obama Works with Ethnic Social Sites to Remove Bad Ad Potential
BY Kate Kaye | Monday, October 22 2007
Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama would probably rather not have ads promoting “Asian Girl Photos” on his AsianAve.com profile. That’s one reason his campaign and others are working with Community ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/22/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, October 22 2007
A interactive feature from the New York Times makes it easy to skip around through a text transcript and video of last night's Republican debate; Patrick Ruffini wants the crowd to help him index political blog ... Read More
I Wouldn't Give E-mail All the Credit
BY Editors | Sunday, October 21 2007
Patrick Ruffini is breaking out the digital champagne seeing trouble from e-mail for Republicans as Obama raises 1.8 Million in a new appeal to voters. Ruffini gives three e-mails sent from the campaign credit. Not to be ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/19/07
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, October 19 2007
Stephen Colbert gets a Facebook group; more data fun over at ronpaulgraphs.com; Barack Obama is the next participant in the MySpace/MTV Presidential Forum -- where are the Republicans?; Todd Zeigler on Obama's latest ... Read More
How to Raise $1.8M in 3 Days
BY Patrick Ruffini | Friday, October 19 2007
Republicans need to understand what's happening here. This $1.85 million fundraising haul (and counting) is the result of just three emails sent by the Obama campaign. It's more than Mike Huckabee raised last ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/18/07
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, October 18 2007
Howard Dean vets launch a new user-generated advertising site; in a new video, James Kotecki looks at Rudy Giuliani's video work and resurrects the candidate-on-a-stick; health08.org makes it easy to compare the ... Read More
Generic Emails from Strangers Not Exactly What People-Powered Politics is About
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, October 17 2007
Josh Levy's been doing great work covering the competition between candidates to send bulk "personal" emails that seem like the candidate him or herself is firing them off via Blackberry. But I got a note from one of the ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/17/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, October 17 2007
Jott lets you send "voice-powered email messages" to the candidates; could a deal between MySpace and Skype help get out the vote?; Fred Thompson goes AWOL on the campaign trail and online; Step It Up produces a tool to ... Read More