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A New YouTube Scandal and A Fast-Growing Facebook Group

BY Fred Stutzman | Thursday, April 5 2007

Two quick snippets from around the web: Via YouTube Most Popular, a video of students at American University protesting presidential adviser Karl Rove. The video, unbearably blurry, shows students clashing with police ... Read More

Barack vs Hillary: Gauging the Q1 Money- and People-Chase

BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, April 4 2007

So Barack Obama is keeping track with Hillary Clinton in the money chase, with "over $25 million raised," compared to $26 million by her. Or, is he actually ahead, with $23.5 milliion raised for the primary, compared to ... Read More

Daily Digest: 4/3/07

BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, April 3 2007

The Web on the Candidates Jeff Jarvis posts a great video on PrezVid grading most of the candidates on their use of YouTube, and showing us some of the best and worst moments from their videos.  John Edwards and ... Read More

Looking at Voter-Generated Presence on Candidate Websites

BY Fred Stutzman | Tuesday, April 3 2007

As candidates cede authority over their web presence to supporters, allowing the posting of voter-generated content to campaign sites, there are bound to be some interesting and unexpected consequences. I decided to ... Read More

Daily Digest: 4/2/07

BY Joshua Levy | Monday, April 2 2007

The Web on the Candidates  The key to the 2008 presidential race won't the be candidates' stands on issues like Iraq, global warming, or the economy.  Instead, suggests Carla Marinucci in the San Francisco ... Read More

On "Hillary 1984": Phil de Vellis Speaks to YouTube and PoliticsTV

BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 30 2007

YouTube news and politics editor Steve Grove has a great interview up on YouTube with Phil de Vellis (a.k.a. "ParkRidge47") on how and why he made the now famous "Vote Different"/Hillary 1984 video. The whole phenomenon ... Read More

Daily Digest: 3/29/07

BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, March 29 2007

The Web on the Candidates President Bush is now quoting bloggers, Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the Caucus reports.  "I want to share with you how two Iraqi bloggers — they have bloggers in Baghdad, just like we’ve got ... Read More

Daily Digest: 3/28/07

BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, March 28 2007

The Web on the Candidates There's a new GOP Bloggers straw poll out, and this month Fred Thompson is the conservatives' fave.   However, the Hotline's Blogometer is starting to notice a pattern: "a new name is ... Read More

YouTube Gets Pwned: Obama's Numbers Don't Add Up

BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, March 27 2007

In the last couple of weeks Barack Obama’s YouTube numbers have absolutely skyrocketed. With over 2,700,000 views of Obama's channel as of this writing, he has almost 35 times the number of views as Hillary Clinton, ... Read More

Daily Digest: 3/27/07

BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, March 27 2007

The Web on the Candidates The "wine track" vs. the "beer track": the division between upper- and working-class Democrats can be seen as "a competition between upscale 'wine track' candidates and blue-collar 'beer track' ... Read More