Link Roundup (2/8/2007)

• Waiting To Hear From Edwards from MyDD

  Super influential liberal blogger Chris Bowers draws a line in the sand with the Edward's campaign over the potential firing of campaign bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. At this point the Edward's campaign has pretty much pissed off the entire blogosphere over this (liberal and conservative). 

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McCain and Blog Outreach

Yesterday David All live blogged a conference call John McCain's campaign staff had with conservative bloggers.  Captain Ed from the conservative blog, Captain's Quarters, posted his insights as well. 

I think there are a couple of key points about campaigns and blogs in general that can be drawn from reading these posts,...

Bid on a Year of College Tuition

I saw an interesting item up for bid on eBay this morning…an entire year of tuition, room, and board at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

Apparently, the bidding started Saturday, with the price now up to $7,500 (as of 3:30 pm on 2/5/07).  Tuition, room, and board at this university usually cost about $23,000,...

Peer-to-Peer Campaigning

Common sense tells you that friends, co-workers and family members have a huge impact on the decisions you make.  Edelman's Trust Barometer has put numbers to this, finding that people trust their peers more than they trust the clergy, corporations, politicians and the government.

So it should come as no surprise that politicians have figured this out and have actively been using the web for the last few years to increase peer-to-peer contacts around their campaigns/issues.  The idea is to give volunteers tools they can use to spread the message on your behalf. ...

Which Dem is Winning Online?

Micah Sifry over at Personal Democracy has an interesting post looking at how well Democratic Presidential candidates are doing on MySpace and at generating blog links. 

All of this should be taking with a huge grain of salt, as online buzz/support doesn’t always translate that well.  Although I would argue is is more meaningful for primary elections than general. ...