Daily Digest: And Then There Were Four

Announcing Personal Democracy Forum 2008!; YouBama combines YouTube and Digg to show the most popular pro-Barack Obama videos; a geek comic hero supports Obama; Danny Glover's Beltway Blogroll and Technology Daily shutter their doors; watch videos of Micah Sifry and Andrew Rasiej on Brian Lehrer Live, and watch Josh Levy, er, live tonight; John McCain wins Florida; Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards are set to drop out, further whittling the field and our once-ginormous charts; and those charts show Clinton and Obama neck and neck on YouTube and McCain and Romney on the rise, according to Hitwise.

Daily Digest: Tag Clouds as Truth Serum

The tag clouds accompanying the Washington Post's candidate profiles are unexpectedly revealing; Ben Smith searches for the truth behind site that is vigorously pro-Hillary and anti-everyone else; a new site covering the campaign injects a little culture into the mix; Care2 launches a politics hub; scientists and academics push for a presidential debate on science and technology; a Republican listserv was public and thus open to liberals. Oops!; the CIA meets YouTube with YouInterrogate; Why Tuesday dresses like 19th century horsemen, storms a debate; a robot heckles Bill Clinton; and checking out an impressive PowerPoint presentation from McCain's campaign.

Daily Digest: How Will McCain Fare on MySpace and MTV?

John McCain is the next candidate up in the MTV/MySpace presidential dialogues; we'll be liveblogging it direct from New Hampshire; dirty emails tricks are cropping up in Iowa; YouTube encourages user responses to the candidates and the about last week's debate; Google is the new GE. Is that a good thing?; the Blog P.I. looks at three Republican fundraising sites and chooses his favorite; and the web is full of misogynistic mudslinging about Hillary Clinton.

Daily Digest: Save the Debate Says No More CNN

More on the CNN/YouTube debate: Save the Debate wants CNN out of the YouTube debate process; Factcheck.org finds a smattering of truth-bending among the candidates; IPDI gets their criticism on; regardless of criticism, the debate was the the most-watched of the season; gay advocates are compiling a list of Giuliani's pro-gay efforts; our own Micah Sifry and David Colarusso get interviewed; and Hillary answers questions on iVillage, doesn't break a sweat.

Daily Digest: The Final CNN/YouTube Debate Link-Fest

The Republicans finally had their YouTube debate, but it wasn't as participatory as the producers would like to think, since the public couldn't help decide which videos to show; in fact, only two of the forty most-viewed submissions were shown; conservatives and liberals alike are bothered that the questions were so narrow, focusing overwhelmingly on guns, immigration, and religion; and then there's the gay general, whose link to Hillary Clinton shook things up; the overwhelming opinion is that Mike Huckabee walked away with a victory; some of the candidates' teams liveblogged the event; and for something completely different, check out the New York Times' profile of ActBlue.

Daily Digest: VetVoice Scores a Coup

The Giuliani Quote Generator Facebook app automates absurdist phrases; Off The Bus speaks truth to the polls, launches its new Polling Project; Ask Your Lawmaker Diggifies the public's questions to the candidates; is Karl Rove a better pundit than Markos Moulitsas?; A clip from the Joe Scarborough show is another example of journalists focusing on anything but the issues; VetVoice, a site devoted to veterans' issues in the campaign, launches with a number of candidate posts on the way; analyzing and voting on campaign logos; a new Obama video takes health care head-on; and TechCrunch interviews John Edwards.

Daily Digest: Obama Unveils His Tech Policy

Barack Obama makes waves with a far-reaching tech policy: will other candidates follow suit?; anti-Giuliani and anti-Paul videos gain some traction; and a new game from John McCain is fun, or controversial, or both. We can't decide.

Daily Digest: Who Needs Hollywood? Bring on the Romney Sons.

The conservative punditocracy reacts to Ron Paul's Haul; a new phony email campaign targets Barack Obama; is Hillary Clinton now the target of a vast online right-wing conspiracy?; an Edwards supporter claims MoveOn is playing favorites with Hillary Clinton; OffTheBus and Brian Lehrer team up for a new citizen journalism project; and in the absence of new material from Hollywood, Slate's Bruce Reed finds comfort in the words of Mitt Romney's five sons.

Daily Digest: 10/5/07

John Edwards holds an event in Columbus, KY, the small town that won his Eventful "Demand and Be Heard" contest; MySpace re-launches its Impact channel and teams up with PayPal to make fundraising easy for users; Jim Geraghty asks if "YouTubeMySpaceFacebookMashup" really matters to a campaign; Tyra Banks embeds a voter registration widget and -- surprise! -- people register to vote; and Republican fundraising numbers are announced, which are significantly lower that the Democrats' numbers.

Daily Digest: 10/1/07

A new video investigates Rudy Giuliani's "scheduling conflicts" on the day of an African American-themed debate; a video shows that Mitt Romney has invested a tidy sum of money in Iran, despite very public calls for others to divest from the country; some missing John Edwards videos turn up on YouTube; a new social networking site aims at online liberals; Ron Paul raises over $1 million in an end-of-quarter fundraising push; and Newt Gingrich will not be running for president in 2008.