Daily Digest 2/27/07
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, February 27 2007
The Web on the Candidates Danny Glover at AirCongress posted a 45-minute video (it's hosted on YouTube; since Google owns it, they made an exception for the 10-minute video length rule) of Hillary Clinton speaking to ... Read More
Separated at MySpace
BY Liza Sabater | Monday, February 26 2007
I have noticed that my list of MySpace friends doesn't grow linearly. You can't just go to the last page of your "friends" to see who's added themselves to your train. New "friends" seem to get added and sorted at ... Read More
Happy Crime Fighter v. Bipartisan Rock Star?
BY Zephyr Teachout | Monday, February 26 2007
This weekend I took an hour to review all the candidates sites as if I were coming to them ignorant -- simply using the web (as many will) to decide who to support. I assumed that I would start trying to figure out, "why ... Read More
Daily Digest: 2/26/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, February 26 2007
The Web on the Candidates Is Al Gore running? Leonardo DiCaprio couldn't get it out of it him, but after he won an Oscar for best documentary last night people are talking. Patrick Ruffini noticed that Gore's web site ... Read More
Understanding Candidate Facebook Groups
BY Fred Stutzman | Saturday, February 24 2007
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
My candidate is Good!
BY Ruby Sinreich | Friday, February 23 2007
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
Daily Digest: 2/22/07
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, February 22 2007
The Web on the Candidates TPMCafe features a post from the Nation's Katha Pollitt in which she deviates from netroots orthodoxy by attempting to understand why Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen's presence on the John ... Read More
Obama for President in Second Life
BY Lynne d Johnson | Wednesday, February 21 2007
Ever since I first heard the announcement that John Edwards set up a campaign in Second Life, I've been very interested in finding out what the other candidates were doing there. I started with a search for Barack Obama ... Read More
Announcing Technorati Tracks: Blog Posts Mentioning Each Candidate
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, February 21 2007
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
By the Numbers: Traffic Analysis for Clinton, Obama, and Edwards
BY Editors | Monday, February 19 2007
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