Personal Democracy is running a series this week on the role technology played in the 2006 elections and what role it will play in future elections. They asked a group of “technologists, politicos, bloggers, and journalists” to send in their take on the issue.
The best take I’ve seen so far (including my own) was from David Weinberger,...
Continue ReadingNewsassignment.net has a great list of nine ways citizen journalists can cover the election. The piece points to two sites that let users predict the results of the elections, “Midterm Madness” at The Washington Post and Predict06.
Interestingly, Predict06 goes so far as to aggregate the picks of all user to see if the crowd can pick races better than the pundits....
Continue ReadingAfter revisiting some of our data from the political campaign study we conducted earlier this summer, I realized that many candidates have added blogs to their websites since our original research. Here is a list of all of the Senate candidate blogs (the italicized blogs did not appear in our original research)....
Continue ReadingPaid Content has a tiny bit of scoop on Daylife , a news startup that will "soft launch" this coming Monday. What Daylife is exactly is clear as mud. Here's the generic description Paid Content offers up:
"The mission is to gather and organize news in ways that are most relevant to the user....
Continue ReadingTechrunch is reporting that magazine publisher Condé Nast has purchased the social news site Reddit. Condé Nast is the owner of a number of popular magazines suchs as Wired, Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Bon Appétit and the New Yorker.
I think this is a fascinating and smart acquisition by Condé Nast....
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