Five Brothers Blog and Digg This

Update: The issue with the Digg buttons I describe below has been fixed on the Romney blog (it was fixed within two hours of my post). I could be wrong, but I suspect that means the campaign is watching blogs pretty closely, unlike the McCain folks who took weeks to fix a similar problem. ...

New ImpactWatch Feature: My Stuff

My Stuff is a new ImpactWatch™ feature that enables individual users to save stories in the system that are pertinent to them.  To do this each story is listed with an icon that saves the item in a place where they collect articles.  Further, it uses AJAX so that saving items is a smooth process that doesn't involve multiple web pages....

MediaPost: USAToday.com redesign pays off

MediaPost reports that USAToday.com's redesign to include many social networking features has paid off.  In article, Gavin O'Malley reports:

USA TODAY'S COMMUNITY-CENTRIC MAKEOVER LAST month appears to be paying off in dividends. Indeed, the site has seen a dramatic 380% increase in registrations since the re-launch, while its unique visitor rates have grown 21% from February,...

Politic2.0: Connecting Politicians and Citizens

Representative Chris Cannon, a Republican from Utah's 3rd Congressional District, is an unlikely Internet maverick, but he shattered such notions yesterday morning in Salt Lake City at the first ever ForumNext.

In conjunction with Politic2.0, a new Utah based web 2.0 startup, Cannon participated in a rather unique quasi-virtual town hall with several bloggers (only about half who focus on politics) and journalists. ...

John Edwards 2: The Campaign Site

Click on the left image to see the before and the right to see the after.

Sounds like a stirring movie, but it isn’t, thank God. It’s the title of my design review of John Edwards campaign site update. I was puzzled by the lack of Edward’s face on the last version of this site,...