The Center for Citizen Media is currently collecting bloggers' questions in order to publish a comprehensive legal guide to blogging election day. Student Fellows from Stanford Law's Center for the Internet and Society will be tasked with answering those questions, ensuring that those planning on covering the elections will understand state laws that would affect how bloggers can report on November 7th....
Continue ReadingVox, the hybrid blogging/social networking platform, has left its beta test phase and is now allowing anyone to sign up. I've written about it before and think it is fantastic. Give it a look. I really think it is going to catch on with personal bloggers.
Read more about it on the Team Vox blog and on Techcrunch. ...
Continue ReadingCNET has a great article today detailing the worst political campaign sites on the web. The list mostly focuses mostly on calling out the bizarre elements of sites for obscure House candidates.
But the piece also points out a personal pet peeve of mine: campaign blogs with zero content. ...
Continue ReadingVirtual gaming fever has hit the MacArthur Foundation, resulting in the philanthropic organization awarding Indiana University professor Edward Castronova a $240,000 grant to build a Second Life -esque virtual world fashioned after the plays of Shakespeare. The project, entitled "Arden: The World of Shakespeare," is meant to let Castronova and his research team delve into online behaviors by conducting ongoing social experiments online....
Continue ReadingMark Blumenthal, the man behind last election cycle's Mystsery Pollster blog, has a new site called pollster.com and it is fantastic. There is a blog that provides analysis of the latest polling data as well as a section called The Polls that aggregates all the various polls for each Senate and Gubernatorial race and select House races. ...
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