On Day One: Can Ideas Alone Change America's Image?

On Day One, a new site that launched today, is inviting folks from around the world to post their ideas. It's kind of like Facebook for people who want to right America's standing in the world. But will it be big enough to effect a change?

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Do You Know Where Your Presidential Candidate Is?

Time's Swampland blog features Today on the Trail (frustratingly, there's no permanent link to the most recent rundown), and RCP maintains a scattershot calendar with hyperlinks to a relevant news article. But the best source, by leaps and bounds, for where each presidential candidate is on any given day comes from Washingtonpost.com.

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Signing Off So Soon

Esteemed TechPresident writers and readers ... As you may know by now, I've joined the Romney campaign as Director of eStrategy, so I'm going to sign off as a regular contributor to TechPresident. ... Meanwhile, stay on the lookout for new tech tools and tactics from Team Mitt.

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Google provides services to campaigns

I'm here at the Politics Online conference in Washington, D.C., and I'm listening to Eliot Schrage, Google VP of Global Communications, talk about Google's approach to politics ("we want to make all of the world's information available to everyone. That's political -- knowledge is power") and it's plans for the 2008 election. After running through what YouTube/Google contributes to the political process -- using videos of Hillary Clinton singing out of tune, John Edwards playing with his hair, and a few jokey videos about children running for president -- he said that Google will be setting up a special team to help campaigns use Google products during the 2008 campaign.

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2008: The Daily Digest, 2/2/07

Jake Tapper, senior national correspondent for ABC News, has a series of web videos outlining the historical racial insensitivities of presidential aspirant, Senator Joe Biden (D-DE).

Copies of Senator Hillary Clinton's (D-NY) "I'm in" video has appeared on YouTube and, collectively, amassed over 7,100 views, according to Donna Bogatin at ZDNet. However, the official upload, Bogatin writes, is not a "viral video sensation," registering only 550 views and eight subscribers to the "hillarydotcom" channel.

2008: The Daily Digest, 1/31/07

Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) launches his presidential bid this morning and according to Beth Fouhy of the Associated Press, the longtime senator will announce his candidacy via online video to supporters.

While in Iowa this weekend, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) was caught on microphone singing the national anthem out of tune, reports the New York Times' Patrick Healy. The new media that sparked a "conversation" about her announcement message quickly turned on her as the video made it to YouTube within hours.