Conventional wisdom is that Election Day 2008 went off without much of a hitch -- a stark contrast to past electoral debacles. But are we pulling that "truth" out of thin air and unsubstantiated media ... Read More

Dave Troy is the guy behind Twittervision, one of the best known Twitter visualizations, and Dave served as the technical lead on the Twitter Vote Report Project we launched here on techPresident. Dave's put together a ... Read More

We're entirely pleased to announce that Twitter Vote Report is now off the ground and unleashed upon the Internet, with the launch of an actual site at TwitterVoteReport.com. Now, that "beta" badge is there for ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates Your Next Work Task: Go Vote: Out of the minds of Google's Creative Lab's, where Googlers go to whip up the future, comes VoteHour.org. CEOs from eBay's John Donahoe to KPMG's Tim Flynn to the ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates Crowdsourcing the First Hundred Days: "At this point," writes Colin Delany on techPresident, "the Internet is pretty much done." Our work here is finished! Actually, Colin's ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates Roll Your Own Webathon: We noted a while back the curious case of an anti-Sarah Palin email sent by two New York women to 40-odd friends that attracted a reported 150,000 responses. That humble ... Read More

The Twitter Vote Report project, a evolving partnership with a number of remarkable organizations in collaboration with a amazingly talented network of volunteer developers, hit another milestone this week with a press ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates The Children are Our Future. And Election Oracles: If you were born before, oh, 1975, you might not be familiar with Channel One. Born after, and you probably know it's an in-class news and ... Read More

In the two weeks since we first proposed using Twitter to report election day problems and challenges, both the response to the idea and how it has evolved has been, frankly, remarkable. The established groups who work ... Read More

The Web on the Candidates Documenting American Democracy: PBS is teaming up with YouTube to put together Video Your Vote, a project that asks voters to document and share their Election Day experiences. (I'd imagine, ... Read More