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• BlogHer interviews Barack Obama

  E-Media Tidbits: The women-bloggers group BlogHer has scored a coup with an interview of Barack Obama. Co-founder Lisa Stone has the details here, and here's the video on YouTube. Another small coup for grassroots media. I'll be attending BlogHer... Posted May 19 2008, 10:42 PM by Social Media Filed under: Politics, obama, barack obama, Citizen media, blogher

• Do the media matter in the presidential race?

  NY Times: A short video debate between author David Corn and Rachel Sklar of Huffington Post about whether "the media" remain influential enough to bias the presidential campaign. Read More... Posted Apr 06 2008, 08:45 PM by Social Media Filed under: Media, Politics

• Women for Barack Obama

  On Thursday night I attended a political gathering, sponsored by the group Good Ole Girls, at the Blue Space art gallery in San Francisco. Speakers from three of the candidates for president — Phil Ting, co-chair, California Asian Pacific Islanders for... Posted Jan 22 2008, 11:16 AM by Social Media Filed under: Politics

• Addicted to election polls?

  Addicted to polls about the presidential contest in both parties? Head over to Pollster.com. Read More... Posted Jan 20 2008, 07:44 PM by Social Media Filed under: Politics

• MoveOn helps you unleash your inner activist

  Wired blogs: MoveOn.org To Launch New Group of Web 2.0 Tools To Unleash Your Inner Activist. (Photo by ... me) The liberal MoveOn.org Political Action group announced a bunch of new online applications Thursday that aim to prime citizens to take political... Posted Jan 11 2008, 11:54 PM by Social Media Filed under: Politics

• Are you registered to vote? Find out

  Are you registered to vote? You can find out now online with VotePoke. Thanks to Micah Sifry for the pointer. Read More... Posted Jan 11 2008, 12:27 AM by Social Media Filed under: Politics

• Beltway pundits: Flake off!

  The Beltway punditocracy has learned absolutely nothing from the message sent by New Hampshire voters Tuesday. The piling on of Hillary Clinton by the cable news gasbags was nothing less than disgraceful. So what do Chuck Todd and Marc Ambinder, two purveyors... Posted Jan 11 2008, 12:00 AM by Social Media Filed under: Media, Politics

• Social media’s election effect

  Joe Marchese at Online Spin: Social Media’s Election Effect. Read More... Posted Jan 10 2008, 12:43 AM by Social Media Filed under: Politics, Social media, Social-media

• A smear job on Obama

  I'm well aware of the large number of miscreants, political hacks and small-minded people who intentionally spread lies on the Internet. What I find less easy to understand are the number of otherwise well-intentioned people who pass along this garbage... Posted Jan 09 2008, 10:10 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech, Politics, obama, barack obama, presidential campaign, smears, presidential race, urban legends, snopes, hoaxes

• Obama's savvy Web presence

  After Hillary's surprising win tonight, I made a donation to the Obama campaign ... and discovered that on My.BarackObama.com you can... build your own profile and connect with supporters near you find or create your own local or national group create... Posted Jan 08 2008, 11:24 PM by Social Media Filed under: Politics

• Free John McCain photos

  If anyone wants to use some John McCain photos, here are a few I released under a Creative Commons license. Read More... Posted Jan 08 2008, 07:27 PM by Social Media Filed under: Politics, john mccain, mccain photos

• Primary delegates widgets

  If you'd like to add a widget tallying up the number of Democratic or Republican delegates committed in the presidential contest (not counting superdelegates), myDD has 'em. I love my widgets. Read More... Posted Jan 08 2008, 12:07 AM by Social Media Filed under: Politics

• Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates?

  During the ABC-Facebook Democratic and Republican debates in Manchester, N.H., Saturday night, the social-networking site launched a politics "Soundboard" (screenshot above) that racked up more than 35,000 comments during the East Coast broadcast... Posted Jan 07 2008, 12:57 AM by Social Media Filed under: Politics, Social networks

• Distributing progressive voices on Internet TV

  From myDD (Direct Democracy) today comes a great rundown of the state of Internet TV, and its potential as a platform for independent voices. Over the past couple of months, I've blogged quite a bit about the prospect of creating cable TV networks... Posted Jan 07 2008, 12:36 AM by Social Media Filed under: Video, Politics, Television

• This time, under-30 voters are showing up at polls

  Front-page story in today's SF Chronicle: This time, under-30 voters are showing up. Fantastic! Excerpt: MTV's Ian Rowe said "several of the top-tier campaigns from both sides" called the network Friday morning wanting to know when they... Posted Jan 07 2008, 12:24 AM by Social Media Filed under: Politics, Youth culture