Salon has a very interesting article today by Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise on why she turned down the job that Amanda Marcotte briefly held with the Edwards campaign. She also addresses what she thinks is a major ... Read More

Continuing a review of potential prez candidate emails, today's topic is the use of a candidate's spouse to soften the candidate's image. In an earlier post, I mentioned that most of the campaigns have caught on to ... Read More

So what made Aregbe's group special? Just as in the case of Ben Parr's "Students Against Facebook News Feed", the success of the group was somewhat arbitrary, but there were factors that contributed to its success. ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates The Editors Weblog reports that The New York Times and the New York Sun are both developing dedicated web sites to cover the 2008 election. "The migration of politics and political journalism to ... Read More

I tend to be more interested in "how the web is using them" than "how the candidates are using the web" in this site's mission. So of course I'm fascinated by the John Edwards Is Good website. I like the ambiguity of ... Read More

Almost all of the 2008 presidential candidates post news in some form on their web sites, whether they are press releases or collected news articles. Many candidates now also post speeches and host blogs on their site. ... Read More

We're pleased to announce our newest feature: Technorati tracks, a series of dynamic charts that show how often bloggers are mentioning the presidential candidates over the last 30 and 90 days. The charts are broken ... Read More

John Edwards' use of 24 different social networking tools is smart. And it's given me 24 more reasons to visit his website, again, to see what he's doing. Edwards is so far ahead of the pack, especially Republicans, that ... Read More

My parents always taught me that you can learn a lot about a person by looking at the people with whom they choose to associate. It's something I have always believed. It is, however, something that is being tossed on ... Read More

One of the issues facing Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards this election cycle is reaching out to both active and potential supporters through their websites. Their developers are continuously updating and ... Read More