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Silly rumours?
Rumours about the ‘First Blog Scandal’ of the 2008 presidential campaign are circulating.
Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon, who this week accepted a job as “blogmaster” to the presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards (part of her job is to write the campaign blog) is the centre of attention according to the man behind the rumours, [...]
A victory powered by blogs and the people-powered movements?
People-powered politics is what won this election for the Democratic Party. With this victory, power is returning to where it belongs in a democracy – with the people. Jerome Armstrong, MyDD
As the results of the US mid-term elections are more or less finalised and the Democrats claim victory, contributors to the campaign have started reflecting [...]
Candidates fail to realise the potential impact of blogging
Earlier this year The Bivings Report released a study about the way that Senators used blogs in the 2006 Senatorial Campaign. Since the study was conducted many of the candidates running in the November election have added blogs to their websites.
Originally the study found that 23% of the candidates had blogs on their websites. [...]
Setting the political agenda?
Is this an indication of how powerful political bloggers have become in the US, or is it just another way to boost TV ratings on Election Day?
Bloggers on campaign payrolls
Daniel Glover writes that the number of bloggers on campaign payrolls has grown significantly since the US Presidential election of 2004.
‘With increasing frequency, candidates across the country are paying bloggers to write, develop Web sites, connect with energetic allies on the Internet, respond to online critics, and advise their employers about how to behave [...]
Google Bombing
The latest tactical move by left wing bloggers in the US election campaign is called ‘Google Bombing‘.
The campaign, outlined by Chris Bowers of MyDD last week, aims to utilize ‘Google Adwords and simultaneous, widespread embedded hyperlinks in order to drive as many voters as possible toward the most damning, non-partisan article written on the Republican [...]
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 [...]
Blogging for Cash
Mydd.com has an interesting post today about something that we at Blog Campaigning have not yet considered: the potential for blogs (and, more generally, the internet) to be used as a fundraising tool. The author of the article draws a direct link to the organisational and influential power of blogs in the political sphere, and uses evidence of [...]
Blue Grass Bloggin’
In the fried-chicken heartland of conservative America, the blogs have found an open ear. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that at a recent convention for political bloggers in Kentucky, a number of hopeful attendees had to be turned away due to lack of space. The paper goes on to remind us that the number of hits [...]
Josh Wolf released after 226 days in prison