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Blogs You Probably Aren’t Reading But Should: TorrentFreak

If you’re into downloading music, movies and software from the internet, chances are you’ve heard of BitTorrent technology (if you haven’t you need to get with the times – read the Wikipedia entry, then download a Torrent client and enjoy). If so, then you know that Torrents are one of the easiest and most popular ways [...]
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Blogs You Probably Aren’t Reading But Should: Future Perfect

If you’re like me, chances are you’ve got a big list of blogs in your RSS reader and don’t venture out beyond that to regularly read other blogs as much as you should. You get comfortable with the same authors and the same ideas. We’ve done posts here before where the BlogCampaigning authors update their [...]
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Honda Gets It

Cheers to Honda for strapping on some waders and stepping into the social media stream by sponsoring a few sections on BoingBoing. Despite all the haters (read the comments), I support the move by Doctorow et. al. to allow a big corporate sponsor like that on their site. These people spend  hours and hours of their [...]
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The German Greens, Innovation and Blogs (or Lack thereof)

I came across an interesting article by German political scientist Franz Walter who makes an interesting observation about the German Greens and their lack of innovation and the accompanying reluctancy to use technology to further their cause on the website of the German newsmagazine the Spiegel. As Walter explains, the German Greens currently have nothing to [...]
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Ron Paul’s fundraising success

One of my favorite Norwegian bloggers, Jill/txt, led me to an interesting post over at TechPresident today about Ron Paul’s recent successful fundraising campaign organized through blogs and social networks. Paul’s supporters raised over 4 million dollar in one day, and according to TechPresident, “this is the first successful application of a fundraising tactic that [...]
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Online Campaigning 2008: Blogs and Information mobility

Last spring, two hours after he used his Des Moines Register blog to ridicule a suggestion by a Hillary Clinton aide that she skip the Iowa caucuses, David Yepsen’s phone rang.”Senator, why are you calling me?” the veteran political reporter asked. It was the former first lady. “I read your blog,” said Clinton, who quoted from his [...]
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ESA Gives Video Game Voters Network Website Overhaul, Could Use Some Humanizing

The Entertainment Software Association, representing the interests of of U.S. video game publishers, launched an updated website for its Video Games Voters Network in order to “increase the recruitment, education, and mobilization of video game players across the country.” The press release (via gamepolitics.com) explains: The response to the VGVN is overwhelming and dramatic―over 100,000 members, [...]
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Subject: Greetings from New Zealand

From: Jens Schroeder Subject: Greetings from New Zealand To: Espen, Parker Hi guys,greetings from New Zealand. I’m having an awesome time here – despite freezing my a** off. Coming from Germany I should actually be able to withstand minus five degrees but I guess living in tropical conditions for the last two years kind of affected my ability [...]
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Two New Blogs

Two great blogs that I’ve come across in the past few days: My friend Jim has just launched his first blog, T Zero, and it’s all about Toronto. And I’ve also just checked out Katie’s blog, The Al Party. I’m not really into politics, but this is some good reading. -Parker
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Low-tech Campaigning in Japan – Use Second Life Break the Law

If someone asked you to freely associate things with Japan you’d probably think of futuristic high-tech, bullet trains, cyberpunk, anime and all the fancy gadgets we always seem to get years later. But of all countries it’s Japan that campaign wise is still stuck in the middle-ages: It’s a first for Japanese politicians — and perhaps [...]
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