A recent study from Nielson//Netratings found that there are more Republicans than Democrats online. Of U.S. adults surveyed, 36.6 percent identified themselves as Republicans, 30.8 percent as Democrats and 17.3 percent as Independents.
This makes perfect sense given that other studies have shown that Republicans tend to earn more money than Democrats....
Continue ReadingJust got an email from the Republican National Committe (I'm on every political mailing list known to man) inviting me to join GOP Mobile, their brand spanking new text messaging network. According to the email, the RNC intends to use the service over the next week to send out election-related breaking news and action alerts to people who sign up....
Continue ReadingThe 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 ReadingSo Hotsoup, the much hyped political social networking site, launched quietly a few days back. I hope for the sake of founders Mark McKinnon, Joe Lockhart Matthew Dowd and Carter Eskew that this is an alpha release or something because it is a mess.
I've been working in web development for ten years now and after wasting spending thirty minutes going through Hotsoup I still don't really understand what they are trying to accomplish here. ...
Continue ReadingThere has been a lot of buzz about using Google Bombs to disseminate negative articles in political races (such as this recent article on MSNBC’s site and this one on the New York Times site), and we even wrote about it briefly here yesterday. While I agree with my colleague,...
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