All posts tagged ‘politics’
by Amanda M. Fairbanks, Staff Writer, New York Times
When Pam Spaulding heard from two contributors to her blog, Pam’s House Blend, that they couldn’t afford to attend the Democratic National Convention, she knew that historic times called for creative measures. Getting convention credentials for her blog, a news site for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, was the easy part. As air fare, lodging and incidentals began piling up, paying for the trip to Denver became the bigger obstacle.
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by Brian Stelter, Lead Contributor, New York Times, TV Decoder
Last November, Mark Penn, then the chief strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton, derisively said Barack Obama’s supporters “look like Facebook.”
Chris Hughes takes that as a compliment.
Mr. Hughes, 24, was one of four founders of Facebook. In early 2007, he left the company to work in Chicago on Senator Obama’s new-media campaign. Leaving behind his company at such a critical time would appear to require some cognitive dissonance: political campaigns, after all, are built on handshakes and persuasion, not computer servers, and Mr. Hughes has watched, sometimes ruefully, as Facebook has marketed new products that he helped develop.
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by Brandon Keim, Blogger, Wired
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are eager to talk about religion. But why are they so scared of science? The two remaining Democratic presidential candidates recently agreed to participate in the Compassion Forum, scheduled for April 13 at Messiah College in Harrisburg, Pa. Billed as a conversation on faith and values, the event will be broadcast by the Church Communication Network. It also comes five days before a proposed science debate that was canceled after the candidates refused to participate.
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by Mark Glaser, Blogger, PBS's MediaShift
Today is President’s Day in the U.S., celebrating the February birthdays of past presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. But rather than looking back, I’d like to look forward to the next president of the United States–whoever he or she will be–and consider how they might use technology and new media to be more responsive to us.
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by Jeff Jarvis, Blogger, BuzzMachine
Polls are as discredited as they should be. So I’m thinking about writing my Guardian column next week about all the new metrics we have to take the pulse of the nation on the Internet. Please help me out with numbers you follow.
None of these is representative or certainly scientific. And many of them can be manipulated–which is just the point of them; they put metrics in the hands of movements that use them to make themselves known: witness Ron Paul’s devoted cult and how they played YouTube like an organ. I speculated after Iowa that one reason for Obama’s success there was the campaign’s ability to organize a critical mass of young supporters in the social services.
The new Internet campaign metrics also let us sense trends that aren’t so manipulable, if we know where to look.
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by Josh Catone, Blogger, ReadWriteWeb
Ah, what a difference a caucus makes. In November, when ABC and Facebook announced their partnership for U.S. political coverage we, like many other tech pundits, expressed skepticism. We noted that polls on the Facebook politics section were drawing just around 1,000 participants–”a microscopic number” compared to the 17 million US members of voting age on the site (now over 18 million). But just over a month later, things seem to have turned around completely.
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