Posts Tagged ‘politics’

Via ARS Technica
By David Chartier | Published: December 30, 2008 - 11:40AM CT
Ubiquitous microblogging service Twitter is once again making political news today with the announcement that the Consulate General of Israel in New York will hold a “Citizen’s Press Conference” today. David Saranga, Consul of Media and Public Affairs, will be taking questions about [...]

Via the Sydney Morning Herald
With the Prime Minister on Twitter, blogging his way to the next election, maybe business should get a little more serious about social media. All the evidence suggests it will.
Paul McIntyre
December 4, 2008 - 11:00AM

Twitter, a micro-blogging venture in which users post views, or “tweets”, to a maximum of 140 characters, [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Robin Wauters on November 28, 2008

There’s a lot of buzz here in the Belgian blogosphere and mainstream media about an incident involving a New York-based blogger, who was fired from her job as a bartender after publishing a post on the bar visit of a Belgian politician. I’m generally hesitant [...]

Via Mashable

November 14, 2008 - 10:38 am PDT - by Adam Ostrow

Some signs of how President-elect Barack Obama will use his massive Internet following are starting to surface. The President’s weekly radio address, a staple of American politics since the Franklin Roosevelt administration, will be posted to YouTube, starting this [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on November 7, 2008

New York Magazine’s John Heilemann is leading a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this morning on “The Web and Politics.” Joining him is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Arianna Huffington and Joe Trippi.
The session jumped right off with Heilemann saying the [...]

Via the New York Times
By DAVID CARR
Published: November 9, 2008
In February 2007, a friend called Marc Andreessen, a founder of Netscape and a board member of Facebook, and asked if he wanted to meet with a man with an idea that sounded preposterous on its face.
Always game for something new, Mr. Andreessen headed to the [...]

Via The New York Times
By THOMAS FULLER
Published: November 7, 2008
BANGKOK — In what lawyers described as a landmark ruling, a court in Malaysia on Friday ordered the release of one of the country’s best known bloggers, ruling that the government acted beyond its authority in invoking a threat to national security.
The blogger, Raja Petra [...]

Via Mashable

November 5, 2008 - 5:11 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow

Hundreds if not thousands of observers have already noted the key role that the Internet and social media played in the successful campaign of Barack Obama. But when he’s President, how will he utilize the hundreds of thousands of [...]

Via Media Shift
by Simon Owens, November 3, 2008
In a YouTube video uploaded on October 24, a husband and wife couple from Oregon sit at their kitchen table and fill out their mail-in voting ballots for the 2008 election. The wife explains to the camera that Oregon has had mail-in voting for “about the last [...]

Via Mashable

November 1, 2008 - 4:01 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

I’ve said it twice before already, but I’ll reiterate: This is the YouTube election. Yes, Twitter has played some part. Reputable bloggers on all sides of the fence, too. But YouTube has been the glue that’s bound this big beautiful [...]