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
Daily Digest: 3/23/07
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, March 23 2007
The Web on the Candidates He got it wrong: Yesterday morning, Ben Smith of the Politico reported that John Edwards was suspending his campaign due to his wife Elizabeth's recurrence of cancer. As we know now, Edwards is ... Read More
Wishing Elizabeth Edwards Our Best
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 22 2007
Elizabeth Edwards' announcement that her breast cancer has returned in a potentially more dangerous form is sad news, and we salute her and John's courage in declaring that they will fight on. Our best wishes to them ... Read More
Daily Digest: 3/22/07 - Vote Different Edition
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, March 22 2007
The Web on the Candidates Comments from around the web: Ben Smith of the Politico: "The web consultant who left Obama's web consulting firm after taking credit for the Vote Different ad has been shadowed in the past by ... Read More
ParkRidge47 Mystery Solved by HuffPost
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, March 21 2007
My hat is off to Arianna Huffington and her crew for figuring out who made the "Vote Different" Hillary 1984 video mash-up, and even better for getting Phil de Vellis, its author, to say more about his reasons for ... Read More
Twitter Update: Edwards Leads -- Obama and Clinton Follow
BY Lynne d Johnson | Wednesday, March 21 2007
Twitter became very popular the past couple of weeks, as all of the A-List bloggers, and folks attending SXSW in Austin started signing up and inviting all of their friends. Because of this, Twitter has proven itself as ... Read More
Daily Digest: 3/21/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, March 21 2007
The Web on the Candidates The search for parkridge47: It's been two weeks since techPresident's Micah Sifry first posted his email exchange with "parkridge47," creator of the Obama/Clinton "Vote Different" video, but the ... Read More