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Campaign Study on PBS MediaShift

Our study on Internet usage by 2006 U.S. Senate campaigns got a nice write up on the excellent PBS MediaShift blog today. The article focuses on the use of tools like blogs and podcasts by the campaigns. It’s a good read.

For those of you interested, here’s a listing of our series of posts the last few months on this topic:

  • The Internet’s Role in Political Campaigns
  • Best 2006 Campaign Websites
  • 2006 Campaign Blog Review
  • 2006 Senate Blog Review…The Sequel
  • Politicians Who Podcast
  • Most “Web 2.0”
  • ...
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MySpace Aims for Global Domination

A couple of days ago the Financial Times reported that MySpace was planning to go global, launching non-English localized versions of MySpace in 11 countries sometime this summer. Countries named at being potential targets included the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and India. MySpace currently has around 75 million registered users (it increases by the second)....

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Netscape Enters News Aggregator Space


Netscape has just entered the news aggregator business, launching the beta version of a news site that mimics the model of sites like Digg and Newsvine. These sites rely on users to vote on the stories they like and use this data to create the equivalent of a newspaper homepage,...

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Trend to Watch: User Generated Campaign Spots

A recent New York Times article on the DailyKos convention in Las Vegas mentions in passing a trend that I think is going to be huge in the 2006 and 2008 campaign cycles: user generated campaign videos. The article tells the story of Ava Lowery, a 15 year old from rural Alabama whose video condemnation of the Bush administration was shown at the Daily Kos convention and has been viewed 40,000 times so far on YouTube....

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Google Tries to Mobilize Support for Net Neutrality

Damien pointed me to Google’s advocacy page on the net neutrality issue. The page is very “Google”. They quickly state their position and link to external sites where users can take action. Not a lot of fuss and pretty much no wasted movement or effort.

More interesting is the excellent Save the Internet website that Google directs people to....

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