Daily Digest: 7/17/07
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, July 17 2007
The Web on the Candidates The growing use of broadband Internet is helping Barack Obama raise more money from more people than ever before, writes the Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas. Not only did about a third of ... Read More
Daily Digest: 7/10/07
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, July 10 2007
The Web on the Candidates More details have emerged about a MySpace-based reality show in development called "Independent." Developed with cooperation from Mark Burnett, whose resume includes "Survivor" and "The ... Read More
Daily Digest: 7/2/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, July 2 2007
The Web on the Candidates Two weeks ago we reported about John Edwards' "Demand and Be Heard" competition, in which the campaign encouraged supporters to use Eventful to "demand" an appearance by Edwards in their town. ... Read More
Edwards Takes Eventful into His Own Hands
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, June 18 2007
This morning I reported that John Edwards had launched a competition called “Demand and Be Heard” in which he’s asking supporters to use Eventful to “demand” his appearance in their ... Read More
Daily Digest: 6/18/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, June 18 2007
The Web on the Candidates Steve Grove, the politics editor at YouTube, has launched a new weekly series called Citizentube This Week, "a look at what's happening in YouTube news and politics... which a special focus on ... Read More
Daily Digest: 5/30/07
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, May 30 2007
The Web on the Candidates Our friends at Eventful were featured on CNN's The Situation Room yesterday, in a report about the most-demanded candidates in the country. As our charts show, Barack Obama (or, as the ... Read More
The Rise of Ron Paul
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, May 24 2007
I'm not sure how far we should take this analogy, but Ron Paul is to the Republicans of 2008 as Howard Dean was to the Democrats of 2004: the one candidate speaking out prominently against the war when his colleagues ... Read More
Searching for Social Media's Holy Grail
BY Fred Stutzman | Sunday, March 18 2007
In the Times coverage of Myspace Impact Pages for political candidates, I was struck by the following paragraph: Some observers believe that such efforts by MySpace and other social networking sites might make them ... Read More
Chart Candy: YouTube Views and Eventful Demands
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, March 12 2007
You may have noticed two new tabs at the top of this page, one that says, "YouTube subs" and another called, "Event demands." They both link to two new members of the ever-growing family of techPresident charts showing ... Read More
Daily Digest: 3/5/07
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, March 5 2007
The Web on the Candidates James Kotecki has been offering the presidential candidates free advice about using online video but he's disappointed in the one-way conversations most of them are conducting (read: they won't ... Read More