Asking Politicos Questions On-line

Would you like to ask a politician or a political candidate a question? OK, maybe only if you're a political junkie, but now you don't have to track them down and get their attention in a personal setting. In fact, you can ask a politician a question using the same machine that allows you to read this post....

Edwards, Obama on Twitter

In a post last week I suggested that campaigns start using Twitter to update activists on their activities. 

Lynne Johnson over at TechPresident reports that John Edwards and Barack Obama appear to have done just that and created accounts. 

Obama hasn't posted at all and Edwards has posted only four times since January 7. ...

USA Today Website Redesign is Live

USA Today's new website went live this morning.  You can read a note from the editors about the redesign here and a breakdown of the new features here. 

I like it. 

The key here is the social networking component.  Users can create profiles that include personal information,...

Try Clicky for Blog Statistics

We’ve had a bumpy history with blog statistics programs here at The Bivings Report. Services we like keep getting shut down.

Here is a quick summary:

1. Industry leader Measure Map got bought by Google a year ago and since then has closed registrations for new users.
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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....