On February 1st, I used a new account to sign up for email from 25 potential prez candidates from both parties to study their use of the medium. Here's a summary of what I've found: 1. Most of the candidates have studied ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates "If the liberal blogs want to understand why so few people outside their narrow echo chamber take them seriously, and what it will take to gain the broader credibility they crave, they should ... Read More

It appears that Barack Obama's strategic web initiatives, including the launch of the private-label social network My.BarackObama.com are paying off. As reported in the Chicago Tribune, more than 4,000 individuals have ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates AbsentCongress.org is keeping tabs on the voting records of 2008 presidential candidates in the Senate. According to the site, Sam Brownback has missed more than half of his Senate roll call ... Read More

John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to -- unofficially -- tread into the Second Life waters. (Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner actually got there first, but he dropped out of the race before ... Read More

Describing herself as having been hired on as a "part-time technical advisor," Melissa McEwan has posted on her site, Shakespeare's Sister, that she has left the Edwards campaign. McEwan has been the focus of attention ... Read More

One thing to watch this presidential campaign cycle will be the usage of YouTube by presidential candidates. YouTube allows a presidential candidate yet another avenue to engage potential supporters and voters, and it ... Read More

John Edwards' blogger Amanda Marcotte has left his campaign staff, effective yesterday. The great deal of negative attention paid to her by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, she says, made it impossible for her to keep ... Read More

Welcome to our new group blog on how the presidential campaigns are using the web, and how the web is using them, TechPresident.com. This blog is an extension of Personal Democracy Forum, our online zine and annual ... Read More

John Edwards decided not to fire bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen for things they wrote before he hired them, receiving acclaim from the left and the right, respectively. "This is all being made up as we go ... Read More