Matt Stoller on how the liberals rule the web; a report on how the netroots raised $400,000 for Donna Edwards; using Twitter to track the primaries; a new pro-Obama hip-hop song hits the tubes; a faux-Gas Tax Scam; disrupting the media narratives, one piece of content at a time; a new white paper on the MySpace Election; Dogpile caricatures the candidates; and comparing Obama and Clinton's pre-primary ad strategies.
| Read more ...Barack Obama gives a major speech, adds to the online cacophony surrounding Jeremiah Wright; MySpace announces its Impact Awards; New York celebrates its Internet industry; lively discussion on the Obama blog as he gives his speech; and John McCain dusts off his March Madness brackets.
| Read more ...A new Hillary Clinton Facebook app may be too late; a MySpace poll shows increased support for Obama; a mysterious Edwards URL redirects to Barack Obama's site; what are those superdelegates doing all day?; barely a nod to the web during last night's Democratic debate; Hillary's campaign finally embraces a piece of voter-generated content.
| Read more ...It's the big day! We'll be liveblogging here at techPres starting at around 7:30; "if web traffic equalled votes.." If only!; Barack Obama is officially the hockey-stick candidate; MTV's Street Team '08 fans out across the country; a majority of Facebook users tell pollsters that Hillary Clinton would be a bad choice for president; Tim Wu on Net neutrality and Obama; two polls from LinkedIn and MySpace give show a preference for Obama; Noam Scheiber interviews Joe Trippi; Obama is encouraging supporters to email and call their friends, even if they're too busy watching the "Yes We Can" video; a look at the candidates use of technology in the final push before Super Tuesday; and why Fred Thompson's blog was good, even if his campaign, er, wasn't.
| Read more ...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.
| Read more ...Matt Bai talks to Tracy Russo, of the John Edwards campaign, about how to move on; Barack Obama and Ron Paul are added to the roster for MTV and MySpace's Closing Arguments event; MTV's Street Team '08 is armed and ready to report on Super Tuesday; PolFeeds collects and spits out the online content produced by the candidates, Members of Congress, the White House, and your grandmother; catch video of Josh Levy and Sarah Stirland on Brian Lehrer this week; Hillary Clinton announces a townhall meeting and invites supporters to submit questions via the web, text, and YouTube; and Barack Obama has raised $50 billion in the last 60 seconds.
| Read more ...A new wiki documents the Clinton campaign's use of racialist attacks on Barack Obama; discovering some distressingly racist and homophobic content in Ron Paul's newsletters; OpenCongress launches MyOpenCongress; Why Tuesday talks to Lee Brenner of MySpace Impact; a video on Current calls out Mitt Romney about his dismissive approach to medical marijuana; and a request for a recall of New Hampshire primary votes is approved.
| Read more ...It's finally caucus day! MySpace crowns Barack Obama and Ron Paul the winners of its own primary; Barack Obama tops the Wu-Tang Clan on Eventful's Hottest Demands page; Chris Bowers experiences three epiphanies; Earfl lets you record a testimonial about your favorite candidate; Mike Huckabee is losing traction online, but Hillary Clinton is getting more and more blog mentions; Mitt Romney holds a tele-townhall with voters, makes it easy to robo-call; is Obama advertising on Drudge?; Mike Huckabee thanks bloggers for "doing the Lord's work"; a former SC governor messes up his Huckabee endorsement; and is a Chris Dodd thank-you video to the blogosphere his swan song?
| Read more ...The MySpace Primary launches, underwhelms; James Kotecki asks why Ron Paul's supporters are overwhelmingly male; a new bumper crop of bloggers rises in Iowa; a new pro-Huckabee group attacks Mitt Romney; the God-o-Meter charts the Godliest candidates; who are new video jabs from Huckabee and Romney aimed at?; and Huckabee pulls a mysterious (and expensive) ad campaign at the last minute.
| Read more ...A MySpace poll of their users claims that young people are perhaps more politically engaged than older generations; WaPo profiles John McCain, makes another tag cloud; the Slashdot community interviews Garrett Graff, chaos ensues; notes from the annals of e-democracy; results from the first National Presidential Caucus; the National Journal's Technology is closing up shop; a new Politico column from Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry looks at the Republicans and tech; and a new site from Bill Richardson might be the gloomiest thing ever.
| Read more ...Recent blog posts
- WhatDoTheyKnow: FOI 2.0
- Daily Digest: Non-Conservatives Board the McCain Train
- Berkman at 10: Open Media--Is Openness Enough?
- Policy (and maybe Politics) events: Week of 5/15/08
- From Jay-Z's Web Book to Khatami's Blog (Berkman10 Dispatch)
- Berkman at 10: Is the Internet Good for Democracy, Or What?
- Daily Digest: Edwards Jumps on the Barackwagon
- Berkman at 10: The Future of the Internet is in Our Hands
- Daily Digest: Obama Steers Clear of 527s
- PdF 2008: Rebooting the System (A Peek at the Program)




