I missed this last week, but apparently the Huffington Post has launched a Digg/Reddit style section on their site called Huffit.
Basically, the Huffington Post is automatically ingesting RSS feeds from pre-identified blogs (including themselves) and then giving registered users the ability to vote on their favorite stories. ...
Continue ReadingThe Los Angeles Times has a great piece today about the explostion of online video in politics. The articles looks both at how both campaigns and activists groups are using viral video to try to impact the 2008 Presidential election.
The whole piece is worth reading, but I found this tidbit about the McCain campaign particularly interesting:
McCain is planning his own Web version of reality TV....
Continue ReadingFollowing in the footsteps of the likes of Bono and as part of her "conversational" Presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton posted a question to Yahoo! Answers two days ago. I'm not a big fan of Yahoo! Answers, but this seems like a pretty good idea.
Here's her question: "Based on your own family's experience,...
Continue ReadingWe are seeing a definite emphasis on words like "conversation" and "interaction" in the 2008 presidential campaign sites so far. While the 2006 Senate cycle saw a persistence of the top-down form of US politics, it seems that 2008 might be the year of politics "2.0". It's obvious that the Internet is affecting politics in the US,...
Continue ReadingThe Politico, a new weekly newspaper that will provide in-depth coverage of the political/lobbying scene, launched yesterday to modest fanfare.
Interestingly, The Politico will take a sort of hybrid approach to distributing its content. They don't seem to be aiming to attract a large print circulation. They will distribute around 25,000 print copies of the weekly paper to various DC types at $3.50 a pop (I've got a copy of the first issue here). ...
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