Daily Digest: 10/15/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, October 15 2007
Ron Paul supporters have put together some amazing charts showing his fundraising progress in real time; Iowans are not really using the web to engage with the campaigns, the New York Times reports; Jose Antonio Vargas ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/12/07
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, October 12 2007
Reactions to Thomas Friedman's piece on "Generation Q's" alleged lack of political activism; rumors about an alleged John Edwards affair are being vigorously denied and are failing to take hold in the blogosphere; Al ... Read More
This Week's Favorite Online Political Videos
BY Editors | Friday, October 12 2007
In our weekly roundup of our favorite political videos, SNL's Darrell Hammond takes on Fred Thompson, Ron Paul Girl urges us to register as Republicans, John McCain gets cold in front of medical marijuana user, and, in ... Read More
Political Outreach on Facebook
BY Editors | Thursday, October 11 2007
Earlier this week in Washington, Facebook hosted two consecutive workshops that it dubbed the Facebook Political Summit. "Our goal is to make you win," announced Josh Rahn, director of sales, before laying out the ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/10/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, October 10 2007
A new Republican crowdsourcing project wants to get to the bottom of Hillary Clinton's earmarks; Barack Obama is king of the social networking sites, but hitting all of the socnets may not be in the interest of local ... Read More
[Updated] Why are Candidates Ignoring the Facebook Platform?
BY Fred Stutzman | Wednesday, October 10 2007
In June, techPresident ran a story Note to Candidates: There's This Thing Called "Facebook." In it, TP associate editor Josh Levy pointed out that while a few supporters had rolled Facebook apps for candidates (Edwards*, ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/8/07
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, October 8 2007
Nobel speculation heats talk of Gore bid; Facebook Political Summit Tuesday to face criticism?; Slatecard, GOP answer to ActBlue, launches; Evangelicals going progressive?; Michael Cornfield sums up the online field; ... Read More
Daily Digest: 10/5/07
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, October 5 2007
John Edwards holds an event in Columbus, KY, the small town that won his Eventful "Demand and Be Heard" contest; MySpace re-launches its Impact channel and teams up with PayPal to make fundraising easy for users; Jim ... Read More
This Week's Favorite Political Videos
BY Editors | Friday, October 5 2007
It's Friday, which means it's time for our weekly list of our favorite online political videos. Some of these videos have begun to go viral and spread around the web; others are here because we think they're ... Read More
Why Are the Democratic Candidates De-Emphasizing Offline Events?
BY Zephyr Teachout | Wednesday, October 3 2007
Clinton and Obama are caught in up one numbers game, but we might also want to look at another -- locally organized events. Clinton and Obama and Edwards supporters, collectively, appear to have used the internet to plan ... Read More