"Barack 1984" Tries to Parry "Vote Different"
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, March 20 2007
Heads-up: There's a response video to Hillary 1984 that's started circulating on the web. More on that below. But first this bit of self-promotion: I'm on CNN's "Situation Room" today at around 5:50pm eastern and on the ... Read More
Daily Digest: 3/20/07
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, March 20 2007
The Web on the Candidates Taking a cue from a question he was asked at the Politics Online conference last week, Jerome Armstrong offers a "succinct guide for doing R&D in the campaign" on MyDD. The top three ... Read More
Breaking News: The Barocket Takes Off on YouTube
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, March 19 2007
Breaking news: Barack Obama is taking off like a rocket in the video-sphere, judging by the number of views his YouTube channel has garnered in the last 48 hours. Just take a look at our chart: After slowly rising in ... Read More
Daily Digest: 3/19/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, March 19 2007
The Web on the Candidates The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas writes about the presidential candidates' use of video, and the reviewers that pick it apart. Specifically, he interviews Jeff Jarvis, James Kotecki, ... Read More
Daily Digest: 3/16/07 - Politics Online Edition
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, March 16 2007
The Web on the Candidates -- Politics Online Edition Jeff Jarvis posts a roundup of one of the first sessions at the Politics Online conference, on putting together a web team. The panel, moderated by former Hotline ... Read More
All Politics is Local, Or is It?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 15 2007
Which campaign has the hotter grass-roots? One way to answer that question is to search for local events being organized by volunteers around the country and see who's got more things going on. The top three Democratic ... Read More
Daily Digest, 3/12/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, March 12 2007
The Web on the Candidates As reported by James Kotecki, Wesley Clark has started to produce videos for his website, stopIranWar.com. While Kotecki is upset that Clark isn't mentioning Kotecki's name responding directly ... Read More
Amazonia
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 9 2007
It's Friday afternoon, and time to ask the burning questions that don't get asked at any other time of the week... Why is it that one out of a hundred people who go to Amazon to check out Barack Obama's bestselling book ... Read More
Who is "ParkRidge47"?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, March 7 2007
The first piece of voter-generated video to make a splash in Campaign 2008 has hit, and with it comes a mystery. Is "Vote Different" really the work of an amateur, a civilian if you will? Or is it a shrewd move by ... Read More
Daily Digest, 3/7/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, March 7 2007
The Web on the Candidates Just after techPresident's Jack McEnany posted a review of Mike Huckabee's exploratory site, the site went down (must be all that techPresident traffic!). Upon finding a Go Daddy parked url in ... Read More