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Techpresident.com is nonpartisan website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry that tracks how the internet is impacting the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns.[1] The site follows how the campaigns are utilizing new internet-based strategies and how citizens are creating Voter-Generated Content like YouTube videos, Facebook groups, and other types of media. Techpresident.com is an extension of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and online magazine which focuses on the broader topic of how technology is changing politics and advocacy. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Political Implications of the Cognitive Surplus
In 2003, Howard Dean supporters who rallied around the candidate's fierce opposition to the Iraq War used their Cognitive Surplus to organize themselves on Meetup.com, create ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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What Happens to the Obama Network After the Election?
We vote in order to change the country, to exercise our rights, to make our voices heard and a hundred other clichés as shopworn as they are true. But we also vote because it ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Obama's Long Tail is Producing Results on the Ground
This is the "long tail" in practice. I'm not going to argue that all of this is solely because of how well the Obama campaign has used the internet. The investments the ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
How much is 700 billion?
Big numbers are hard for people to process. 700 billion can start to sound like 300 billion, or 900 million for that matter. It becomes like sand grains or moon strands, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Online Social Networks in Politics: Promise, Frustration and...
Is 2008 the MySpace/Facebook election? You might think so from the political attention and resources invested in online social networks in the past year or so. The top ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
McCain's "The One" Attack Video: Does it Have a Deeper Message?
The Matthew 25 movement--a group of progressive evangelicals that runs a PAC and has endorsed Obama--is charging that the ad is actually full of coded messages meant to ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
United, Delta, American, Southwest...the Airlines Move in on Moveon
A few years ago, I argued that there were three powerful forces in modern society--civic democracy, corporations, and religion--and which ever of these learned how to harness ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The FISA Protest and myBO: Can We Talk? Can They Listen?
The fact is, we're all entering completely new territory here. There have always been efforts to influence political candidates to take or change positions during a campaign ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The Trustees of the Republican Leadership Trust
We thought we'd been covering the political technology space pretty well over the last year or so, but a new top-secret project somehow alluded us. Convinced that the ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Beyond Bittergate, Barack Yields Success to His Supporters
This realization by Barack that his success is due (at least partly) to the connectivity of the Internet is important. There is a Revolution taking hold of American ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Show Us Some Real Money, Hillary
An email from Terry McAuliffe, Clinton campaign chairman, that I received three hours ago, says "More than 50,000 people have contributed to the campaign for the very first ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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Presidential Election 2008 (5), Obama Administration (5), Media and Politics (5), Democratic Party (2), Internet (2), Social Networks (2), U.S. Economy (1), Democratic Nomination (1), Lobbying (1), U.S. Budget (1), Hillary Clinton (1), Republican Party (1), John McCain (1)
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