The last year has seen the rise of social news sites that give users editorial control of the sites' homepage by voting on their favorite stories. Users submit stories which are then voted on by other users, with the most popular stories appearing most prominently on the sites. The key to this concept is users spending time reading through submissions to find the most compelling stories. ...
Continue ReadingEver now and then something hits the Internet and spreads like wildfire. Below are four such phenomena I've come across recently that I figured I'd share.
(1) Million Dollar Homepage
On August 26, 2005, English college student Alex Tew launched the Million Dollar Homepage as a way to fund his education....
Continue ReadingI’m not sure how I missed this, but the Washington Post recently launched a political ad campaign database called Mixed Messages. It looks like the Post will be trying to catalogue all the political ads produced by the various candidates/national committees this cycle.
They’ve done a really nice job with this....
Continue ReadingIn a pretty gutsy move, Joe Lieberman’s campaign launched a blog with open comments right at two months before the election.
And in the least suprising development pretty much ever, open warfare has broken out in the comments area of the blog between Lieberman supporters/haters.
I think this would have worked a lot better had it launched before the online discussion around this race had gotten so poisonous....
Continue ReadingYesterday the Democratic National Committee launched Party Builder, a social networking tool attached to their main website, www.democrats.org. This comes on the heels of a similar effort the Republican National Committee launched a while ago called MyGOP.
Party Builder is a nice, full featured tool. The folks behind this did a good job....
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