Obama's Virtual Ad-Buy and the Gamer Constituency

With his in-game ad-buy on XBox Live, Obama is bucking the Democratic Party's history of maligning video games and reaching out to a 21st century American constituency.

CountMore - Strategic Battleground Voting for Students

Can strategic voting on the part of students swing a vital battleground state? CountMore, a new website, hopes to help them try.

The Significance of the Facebook Causes Giving Challenge

With the close of its Facebook Causes Giving Challenge, The Case Foundation has begun to fulfill the original promise many saw in the Facebook "Causes" application.

MTV/MySpace Postmortem: Change vs. Experience vs. Ron Paul

Last night on MTV, four candidates presented young voters with their closing arguments and got another lesson from Ron Paul in how online organizing really works.

Live Blog from the Final MTV/MySpace Dialogue

Live blogging "Closing Arguments," the MySpace/MTV Super Dialogue featuring Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, and Mike Huckabee.

Clinton, Huckabee Present Closing Arguments in Latest MTV/MySpace Dialogue

Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee hope that the MTV/MySpace Candidate Dialogue can increase their appeal to young voters on Super Tuesday.

Fear and Vlogging on the Campaign Trail, 2008?

MTV takes another innovative step into social media with the launch of its new citizen-journalist press corps.

Another Take on McCain's MySpace/MTV Appearance

Despite a potentially hostile audience, McCain aced today's MTV/MySpace dialogue, which (despite a few kinks) continues to set the bar when it comes to creating a more transparent, participatory interaction between the candidates and a mass audience.

Jott the Vote: A National Application Begging to Go Local?

Jott the Vote lets voters leave voice mail messages for their favorite (or despised) Presidential candidates. In a Presidential campaign, it's a novelty, but at the local level, Jott the Vote could be a leap forward in legislator/constituent relations.

In Search of A Feedback Loop: Grading the MySpace/MTV Candidate Dialogue

After a few technical glitches, the MTV/MySpace candidate dialogue series kicked off today, streamed live from the University of New Hampshire, where Sentator John Edwards was grilled by college students, and held accountable for his answers by online viewers who voted their approval or disapproval of senator's answers in real time. Here's how it went.

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