Protesters on the streets of Tehran questioning the recent Iranian presidential election results have gotten support from a new breed of election watchers: Internet-enabled anomaly hounds who say the numbers don’t add up.
Iranian protesters looking for unblocked avenues on the Internet might consider World of Warcraft.
Network-security firm Arbor Networks says it has a rough sketch of how the government’s firewall works and that it appears to be selectively blocking Internet applications, particularly online video and email.
As the Iranian election aftermath unfolded in Tehran–thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to express their anger at perceived electoral irregularities–an unexpected hashtag began to explode through the Twitterverse: “CNNFail.”
Barack Obama’s online presence drove his campaign’s early fund raising and his primary victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton. His campaign’s use of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube proved that he was part of the Web 2.0 generation. So what happened? President Obama hasn’t tweeted once since being sworn into office.
Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States Tuesday night, crowning an improbable two-year climb that owes much of its success to his command of the Internet as a fund-raising and organizing tool.
Have you voted? Are you having problems voting? Are the lines at your polling station short or long? Let your fellow voters know via Twitter Vote Report. The site will aggregate all tagged tweets (use #votereport) and share the results publicly. The tweets are being analyzed and displayed on maps. Waiting times are also being plotted and analyzed.
You may recall earlier this month that a judge in New Jersey barred some researchers from releasing their report into the security vulnerabilities found in e-voting machines from Sequoia that were being used in the state. Sequoia had fought hard to stop the research from even being done in the first place. …
By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET’s Technology Voters’ Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the [...]
It turns out that the ideal vice-presidential candidate for Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is the same person as the ideal vice-presidential candidate for Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.), the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to a sophisticated online survey by Affinnova Inc.
So, has New Media changed the way we select our presidential nominees? Has it fulfilled its promise to reduce the ability of the mainstream media and the political establishment to pick our candidates for us? It might not seem so. After all, the three remaining possibilities are all U.S. senators perennially embraced by Old Media. Moreover, mainstream media has been mocking conservative talk-radio hosts and bloggers for their inability to defeat McCain. But, a look beneath the surface reveals that finally, during this election cycle, New Media has seized control of the nominating process, probably forever.
Republican operatives scheming to steal the election in Maryland this fall? Threat Level is reporting that the contract for transporting e-voting machines in the state has been contracted to a company whose president was the head of the state Republican party until 2006. I think the answer is almost certainly “no”: While this certainly looks like a conflict of interest, I suspect it’s no more than an honest oversight that will be quickly corrected. Still, it’s troubling that we even have to worry about who transports voting machines.
As a candidate for president, you can collect thousands upon thousands of Facebook supporters, MySpace friends, blog readers, online video viewers and more, and yet that doesn’t guarantee you one vote in a real-world election. But perhaps the tide is turning now. With Barack Obama winning the Iowa caucuses and polling strongly for New Hampshire, there might be a case to be made connecting his online prowess to his strength among younger voters.
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