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This article appeared in the Examiner yesterday:
Robert Cox: When will the right recognize the cost of conceding Web 2.0?
WASHINGTON – If you doubt the Internet is causing a sea change in politics, just ask “independent” Senate candidate Joe Lieberman, who came out on the wrong end of a blogger-fueled campaign for the Democratic nomination in [...]
Just another political marketing tool?
Although I find it hard to believe that people are sending us press releases/articles about their latest political marketing tool (considering how young our website is), I find it harder to believe that they are sending us press releases that are at least two weeks out of date, like PointRoll has done. PointRoll’s CEO Chris [...]
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Updates on the blog situation in Iran.
Will a Google buy-out stop YouTube’s political revolution? John Harris dabates in The Guardian.
Huffington Post about Joe Liebermans campaign staff:…somebody needs to pull Joe’s astroturf crew aside and tell them that they really suck at this whole “blogging” thing.
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The Greens and The Dirties
While our website has primarily been focusing on the blogs of notable politicians, we would also like to note that focus groups, with their ability to sway the vote and draw attention, also deserve recognition for their political work in the blogosophere. From the left side of the spectrum, we have the Friends of Hylebos, a [...]
Google – every politician’s nightmare!
If you want to be taken seriously in the blogosphere, professionalism and accuracy are crucial to whatever work you do. Old news, I know, especially if you want to blog as a politician. Still, I had to learn it the hard way when I was totally slaughtered over at Tim Blair last week. In some [...]
Blogs to Watch
One of the questions that we continually ask ourselves is what exactly makes a good political blog. While some blogs focus only on basic policy issues, others delve into the personal life of the politician. Boingboing points out that Sayyid Ali Khameini, leader of Iran, takes it one step further by providing personal advice on [...]
‘Webcameron’
An interesting article appeared in Spiked October 3:
On the eve of the Conservative Party’s conference this week, leader David Cameron has been busy generating headlines. He was fancifully pitched alongside John F Kennedy for making similar ‘ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country’ comments in [...]
Why politicians should stop spinning and learn to love blogging
This article was also published in Crikey today.
Despite a recent Queensland state election just behind us, and a 2007 federal election looming around the corner, the numbers of Australian politicians making use of the blogosphere remains almost negligible. In fact, with a few exceptions, the chances of seeing an Australian politician blogging [...]
How should Hillary approach the blogosphere?
The significance of blogs in political campaigns is illustrated in an article in USA Today by David D. Perlmutter where he discusses Hillary Clinton’s future relationship with the emerging blogosphere. Perlmutter claims that howHillary plays the blogs, or is played by them, will be one of the most important political stories in the next few [...]
Who has blog power?