Donating to the Red Cross to support victims of Hurricane Gustav is like buying a GM car - why would you when there are so many better choices that fit the Connected Age? C'mon, Team Obama, stop trying to appease and start trying to change the world!

Obama asks for Gustav help via text message, the RNC gets started, Twitter at the DNC, Palin uses eBay, Alaska's blogging industry, and Palin's e-family drama

Obama makes YouTube history with the most watched presidential campaign video ever -- and beats cable news along the way.

Hillary Clinton is under fire for planted questions again, but this time her critics are wrong.

It's a web politics battle: Disintermediation v. Interactivity...

The Obama Campaign does not stress its historic Internet success. It does not even discuss the web as an obvious metaphor for Obama's candidacy: An open frontier where race and gender recede, new ideas vanquish the old, and citizens converse and connect in ways that the prior generations would never understand, let alone support. Perhaps that is simply because no presidential candidate wants to sound like the next Howard Dean. Or maybe, the campaign knows that you don't build a movement by talking about it. You do it, person by person, until one day, everyone can see it.

Can Obama's "Yes We Can" speech become a hit song?
John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Common, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Scarlett Johansson think so.

A new website is talking back to Obama's YouTube video hits.

What do anime, a nude Charlotte Ross and Barack Obama have in common?

They won't tell you on TV, but people are watching Obama's new speech. Disintermediation is alive on YouTube.

Joe Trippi is one of the few political consultants who speaks frankly, even to the detriment of his clients, and loves democracy even more than he loves politics. I caught up with him for an hour-long conversation about his work for the John Edwards campaign, why Hillary Clinton might be the Howard Dean of 2008, and how the Iowa caucus is like the Internet.