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