This year has seen two controversies surrounding online political attacks that were designed to look voter-generated, but were actually produced by people indirectly connected to campaigns. In one, the producer and ... Read More

A new study indicates that text messaging can increase youth voter turnout; the Huffington Post/Yahoo/Slate mashup debate is rolling, and it turns out we can use Jumpcut to edit the footage after all, but we're somewhat ... Read More

Our second semi-subjective, semi-scientific list of the best new political videos of the week. As before, we're focusing on voter-generated content, but will include interesting videos from the campaigns too. If you have ... Read More

A connection between the Romney campaign and an anti-Fred Thompson website; the College Republicans are encouraging their minions to use YouTube; Mike Bloomberg's social networking profiles have been slow to take off; ... Read More

I am glad to see that a post I wrote, Candidates' Blogs: Glorified Public Relations? has received some good discussion in the comments section at techPresident as well as some other blogs. On MYDD user Psericks wrote a ... Read More

Brave New Films takes a big swing at Rudy Giuliani; reasons behind excluding Ron Paul from the GOP Bloggers poll; Mike Bloomberg creates a MySpace page and a Facebook profile but is definitely NOT running, really, he ... Read More

Jose Antonio Vargas starts tracking the candidates' online numbers; Larry Craig's endorsement video disappeared from Mitt Romney's YouTube page, but has sprung up elsewhere; Wonkosphere tracks the online buzz surrounding ... Read More

Newt Gingrich is advising Fred Thompson to use video when, or if, he announces; asking if the Internet really matters in election politics; Barack Obama launches Generation Obama; and Obama, Sam Brownback, and Ron Paul ... Read More

I have been hearing a lot lately about we are facing a mortgage crisis of huge proportions. Lenders have overextended themselves with high risk, variable interest rate loans and now people are defaulting on loans in ... Read More

A defining problem of our cultural moment: Sometimes, as I stare at my Facebook profile, I have no idea what to write in my “Status Update.” It got me thinking, Do the candidates suffer from the same ... Read More