Democrat John Edwards has gotten a lot of attention in the blogosphere for announcing his candidacy for President on YouTube. A little more quietly, another candidate, Democrat Tom Vilsack, has launched a video blog over on blip.tv (via WP Post IT blog).
Here’s one of his recent posts where he talks about “the power of the Internet to enable conversation between voters and candidates.”...
Continue ReadingEver since his appearance before hard core geek bloggers and techies at Gnomedex in July, there has been a certain enthusiasm about John Edwards’ Presidential candidacy in the tech blogosphere. Why? I think a big reason is that he is wooing a contingency that isn’t used to being wooed by politicians....
Continue ReadingThe Problogger Group Writing Project wrapped up last Friday and somehow I managed to win a Nintendo Wii for participating with my Top 8 YouTube Videos of 2006 post. The prize was kindly donated by 451 Press.
As a wrap up, here are some cool posts submitted by other contestants:
Pew Internet Life released a fascinating study a few days back (PDF) that looked at voter contacts during the 2006 election. Below is a table summarizing the key findings:
Two things jump out at me here:
(1) 56% of folks surveyed received recorded calls urging them to vote,...
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press released a list of their Top 10 YouTube videos a few weeks back. And we did a Top 10 Political Videos list back in September. So here’s a derivative post listing our Top 8 YouTube videos of 2006.
(8) Microsoft designs the Ipod packaging….
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