The Internet’s Role in Political Campaigns

We recently completed a study that assesses the utilization of the Internet as a tool for 2006 political campaigns. The study, a follow-up of the 2002 version, examined how 2006 senatorial candidates used the Web to publicize information about their campaign platforms, personal backgrounds, and volunteer opportunities. We looked at a number of Web campaign tools and made comparisons based on party affiliations,...

2006 Blog Review

After finishing our study of campaign websites, we took the time to check out the Senate candidates’ blogs.  Here is a review of some of the best and worst campaign blogs for 2006.

Rick Santorum’s (R-PA) blog, “Running with Rick”, was the most complete of the three incumbent blogs we found,...

Sphere Hits the Time Magazine Website

Folks who read papers like the Washington Post online are familar with the Who’s Blogging feature powered by the blog search engine Technorati. Basically, Who’s Blogging allows you to view a list of blog entries linking to the Post story you are reading. You can see an example of this in action on pretty much any Post story....

Some Must Have Firefox Extensions

I’m a big fan of Firefox.  At first my infatuation was all about the tabbed browsing and increased security, but at this point the biggest draw for me is the extensions. Internet Explorer users don’t really get the whole extension thing, so I figured I’d list out some of the more useful ones I have installed to show what the fuss is about....

Google Notebooks=Grrreat!

For someone who loves to squirrel away nuggets of information (everything from ornithology to celebrity news), Google Notebooks has provided a great tool to all of us. I have created a number of new notebooks since yesterday (one for each client, plus one solely dedicated to recipes involving easy-to-prepare rice dishes and cake recipes that consist of stacking Hostess Ding Dongs on top of each other). ...