Daily Digest: They Look Like Facebook
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, November 14 2007
Markos Moulitsas covers the campaign for Newsweek -- who will be his counterpoint?; asking political reporters to move beyond the horserace; Meetup plans a super-top-secret project; TinyURL supporters Ron Paul, web ... Read More
Clinton Camp Disparages Youth/Facebook Vote?
BY Editors | Monday, November 12 2007
A mere week after launching Students for Hillary and touting its support among young people, top advisers to Hillary Clinton were busy in the spin room Saturday night disparaging them, claiming that Obama's supporters ... Read More
Daily Digest: Obama Rocks Jefferson-Jackson and the Web Responds
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, November 12 2007
Dan Gillmor calls for better presidential debates, Lincoln-Douglas style; the candidates are all courting Silicon Valley, but do they really get what makes the web tick?; Karl Rove predictably blames the netroots for Ned ... Read More
Daily Digest: Hillary's Fact Hub: Own that Message!
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, November 9 2007
YearlyKos becomes Netroots Nation; a new widget gets out the women vote; a state-by-state study of voters' web habits reveals unsurprising results: IA and NH are the most tuned-in states; and Hillary Clinton launches a ... Read More
This Week's Favorite Videos: The Politics of Gender-Bending
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, November 9 2007
Is it me, or are the citizen-filmmakers of the world getting behind? This week, only one citizen-created video — the George Bush gender bender clip — caused much of a stir. Most of the other notable vids were ... Read More
Daily Digest: Who Needs Hollywood? Bring on the Romney Sons.
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, November 8 2007
The conservative punditocracy reacts to Ron Paul's Haul; a new phony email campaign targets Barack Obama; is Hillary Clinton now the target of a vast online right-wing conspiracy?; an Edwards supporter claims MoveOn is ... Read More
Daily Digest: The Politics of Double-Speak and Video Follow-ups
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, November 5 2007
Stephen Colbert is on the ballot after all -- the GeniusRocket ballot, that is; what happens when you set up a water cooler in the middle of a park in New York City? Magic!; Debatepedia launches, promises to bring truth ... Read More
Clinton and the Gender Card: Perspectives
BY Morra Aarons-Mele | Monday, November 5 2007
Feminist leader Gloria Feldt writes that the furor about Hillary Clinton and the gender card (see Pile On video) is a process of “desensitization” : we’re all trying to work out our collective discomfort with such ... Read More
Daily Digest: The Youth are a-Hillblazin'!
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, November 2 2007
A coalition of right-wing bloggers, MoveOn, and others pressures Fox to release footage of the debates; Political Base maps campaign contributions; Ron Paul supporters turn to video gaming to support their man; another ... Read More
The Week's Favorite Videos: Dissing Thompson, Dancing Obama, and Dodging Clinton
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, November 2 2007
It’s our favorite political videos of the week! Watch as Fred Thompson dismisses a simple question from a simple citizen, complicated cookies are explained nice and easy, Barack Obama struts his stuff on Ellen, ... Read More