Hotsoup is a mess

So Hotsoup, the much hyped political social networking site, launched quietly a few days back.  I hope for the sake of founders Mark McKinnon, Joe Lockhart  Matthew Dowd and Carter Eskew that this is an alpha release or something because it is a mess. 

I've been working in web development for ten years now and after wasting spending thirty minutes going through Hotsoup I still don't really understand what they are trying to accomplish here. ...

Could Political Google Bombs Work?

There has been a lot of buzz about using Google Bombs to disseminate negative articles in political races (such as this recent article on MSNBC’s site and this one on the New York Times site), and we even wrote about it briefly here yesterday. While I agree with my colleague,...

Vox Launches

Vox, the hybrid blogging/social networking platform, has left its beta test phase and is now allowing anyone to sign up. I've written about it before and think it is fantastic.  Give it a look.  I really think it is going to catch on with personal bloggers.

Read more about it on the Team Vox blog and on Techcrunch. ...

Will “Google Bombs” Impact the 2006 Elections?

MSNBC has a story today about the efforts of liberal and conservative bloggers to articially raise the search ranks of negative articles about candidates they oppose. 

The idea is that if I search for "George Allen" on Google, the liberal bloggers want the macaca video to show up high in the results. ...

The Worst Political Websites

CNET has a great article today detailing the worst political campaign sites on the web. The list mostly focuses mostly on calling out the bizarre elements of sites for obscure House candidates. 

But the piece also points out a personal pet peeve of mine: campaign blogs with zero content.  ...