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Moustatus = Moustache Status
To try out my moustache ability for Movember, I did a test run on Friday night for a Halloween party.
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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 [...]
Do Norwegian Politicians Understand The Internet?
At the very moment I’m writing this, the election results from the local elections in Norway are about to be finalized. The election results do not interest me too much right now. What I am disappointed about is the fact that although most of the parties have tripled the daily hit-rate on their [...]
Espen’s Thesis
As many of you may or may not know, BlogCampaigning was originally created almost a year ago as part of Espen Skoland’s thesis on politics and blogging for his Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications (Honours) at Griffith University, Australia.
This site has served as a way for Espen to interact with the online [...]
Young Bloggers on the Front Line of Presidential Campaigns
MTV.com, yes, you got that right, MTV, as in the useless music channel, features an interesting interview with, Stephen Smith, Director of online communications for the Romney campaign, and Sam Graham-Felsen, Blogger for the Obama campaign, this week. In the interview Smith and Graham-Felsen are sharing some of their experiences with the campaigns so far [...]
Electioneering via Internet = increase in votes
Politicians who miss net boat could miss vote reads the headline of Silicon Republican, Ireland’s Technology News Service today.
“Irish politicians who fail to embrace new media such as the internet, email, blogging and even social networking sites like YouTube are in danger of losing out on a vast number of younger people in their [...]
Netroots and the establishment
“As the smoke began to clear after Election Day, two things seemed clear. Though the netroots have forever changed how campaigns raise money and find votes, the results demonstrated that they cannot yet win elections on their own. But the Democratic Party cannot win major national elections without the netroots”, wrote Nicholas Confessore in a [...]
Why acknowledge the power of blogs?
Why does politicians and political commentators need to start taking the ‘blogosphere’ seriously?
Well, according to Donald Alexander of Charles Sturt University a reading of academic articles published between 2004 and now, plus commentary in the political media, shows that blogs are beginning to exert some influence on political agenda. Additionally, the increasing use of blogs [...]
The German Left Party and its Understanding of Wikipedia