Street Fighter, Downing Street Edition
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, May 5 2010
Caught up in these last few tense hours of the UK election, and need a way to blow off some steam? You could do worse than playing a few rounds of "Downing Street Fighter." It's actually well done, and some ... Read More
Daily Digest: Zapping Errors Between Voter and Vote
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, October 30 2008
The Web on the Candidates On-the-Go Where to Vote Info: If our referral logs and those of our friends are any indication, where to go to cast a ballot is at the top of many peoples' minds these days. A neat new mobile ... Read More
Daily Digest: Can Robos Survive Under the Full Glare of the Web?
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, October 23 2008
The Web on the Candidates Internet Killed the Robocall: The liberal mini-media empire Talking Points Memo is out with an inventive "Map of GOP Sleaze" that plots campaign robocalls and mailers against a map of ... Read More
Obama's Virtual Ad-Buy and the Gamer Constituency
BY Michael Connery | Wednesday, October 15 2008
As Game Politics broke last week, and Gigaom confirmed yesterday, Barack Obama is buying in-game advertising on X-box Live. The ads are photo-realistic and announce the start of early voting and promote Vote for Change, ... Read More
Daily Digest: Why '08 Will Be the Election of Databases (One Way or Another)
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, October 10 2008
The Web on the Candidates From the Voter Files: Passed in 2002 in the wake of the election debacle two years earlier, the Help America Vote Act required that every U.S. state establish comprehensive voter registration ... Read More
Game Platforms as Political Platforms?
BY Michael Tate | Thursday, August 21 2008
John McCain's campaign release of the online game "Pork Invaders," as a Facebook application, wasn't a game changer but a prelude of future message strategy. Video games will be added to the multitude of political ... Read More