Five Technologies that Will Impact the 2008 Elections

Patrick Ruffini has a good post about an online poll he came across that asked what technology would have the biggest impact on the 2008 election cycle.  YouTube is winning the poll in a landslide.  Ruffini writes:

That’s a “fighting the last war” mentality. Ask the pundits to predict what will work in the next election cycle and they’ll repeat what worked in the last one....

Is the McCain campaign listening to bloggers?

I wrote a pretty complementary post a few weeks back about a conference call the McCain campaign had with conservative bloggers. 

Two weeks later it is clear that the McCain campaign is failing at the most important part of blogger relations: listening.

Mike Turk signed up for an account on McCain's social networking tool,...

Campaign Site Design Review: Obama for President

My third presidential candidate website review is Barack Obama (previous reviews were of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards' sites). My first impression is a positive one, as this site is constructed very solidly and allows for all of my essential user needs to be met in one pass (mostly. I have to scroll a touch to get to the networking/sharing options)....

Jeff Jarvis Launches New Site on the “YouTube Campaign”

I’m not sure whether I’m the first or last to notice this, but Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine has launched a new blog (Prezvid.com) dedicated to what he calls the YouTube campaign.  Prezvid has been added to my feed reader. 

To give you a taste, here is a video Jarvis put together offering John McCain some unsolicited advice on his use of video on the web. ...

McCain’s Website

John McCain launched his new website late last week and plenty of smart folks have already weighed in, so I'll skip a full review and just link out. 

I will say that upon seeing the site my first association was with the movie Schindler's List.  Like McCain's site,...