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. ...
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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,...
Continue ReadingOn April 7th, 2008 Republican Presidential candidate John McCain published an op-ed about the Iraq war in the Washington Post. That same day, Fred Thompson, who is considering his own Presidential run, wrote a blog post about Iran on Red State, a conservative blog community.
Two very different approaches....
Continue ReadingYesterday, seven major presidential hopefuls participated in an on-line town hall meeting about Iraq hosted by the left-leaning MoveOn organization where members of the site "gathered in over 1,000 living rooms, bars, libraries and back yards" all over the country. Of the wide presidential field MoveOn members invited 12 candidates that represent both major parties,...
Continue ReadingWashington Post website redesigned as a wiki?
A Japan-based design firm has redesigned the Post in the wiki style. Interesting. Reminds me of a stripped down version of the current New York Times website. <Via Martin Stabe>
Wikis, Indexes, Context, and the News
Amy Graham from the Poynter Institute writes about how wikis might be used by the news media: “They could play a valuable role not just in supplying engagement and context,...
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