Social Networks

Poll: Should Candidates Maintain Official MySpace Profiles?

I think this is the big question raised by the whole Obama MySpace mess. Let us know what you think by voting in the poll below and by leaving your thoughts in the comments.
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Republicans and Twitter

Way back in February, I wrote a speculative post about technologies I thought might impact the 2008 elections. One of the technologies I mentioned was Twitter. The Hotline (and David All) noted last week that House GOP leader John Boehner is twitterring (sorry). Today, I stumbled across the recently created profiles of House Whip Eric Cantor and the National Republican Congressional Committee (first committee on Twitter I think)....

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Obama’s MySpace Fiasco

Micah Sifry has a fantastic story up on the battle currently being waged over Barack Obama’s MySpace profile. In a nutshell, a few years ago an Obama fanatic reserved Obama’s name on MySpace and began building a network on Obama’s behalf. The campaign worked with the supporter for a while,...

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Fark Launches Redesign, Farkers Hate It

Along with Slashdot, Fark is sort of the granddaddy of social news sites like Digg, del.icio.us and Newsvine. Launched in 1999, Fark lets users submit story links which are then reviewed by editors. The best submissions make the Fark homepage. Digg is essentially Fark (or Slashdot) with user voting in place of the editors....

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MajorityAP.com: Conservatives Strike Back On-line

While perusing through Facebook today I learned about a new conservative website — MajorityAP.com, The Majority Accountability Project — that is slated to go live on April 23rd.  It aims to track the Democrats in the House of Representatives and hold them accountable for their actions.  Hill veterans and site co-founders Mike Brady and Mike Giuliani will cover and present investigative reporting on,...

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