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Survey: online video helps voters stay more engaged

Via ARS Technica By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 29, 2008 – 07:01PM CT Online video has experienced massive growth in recent years, and now that we’re finally nearing Election Day in the US, it’s helping voters stay informed. New … Continue reading

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‘Net yields new dirty political tricks, means to fight them

Via ARS Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: October 21, 2008 – 08:18PM CT Let’s face it, even hardcore privacy mavens probably appreciate the Internet’s magical ability to determine who should see that listing for used Smiths LPs and who … Continue reading

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How Political Diarists Power RedState, Daily Kos

via Media Shift by Simon Owens, October 21, 2008 In October of last year, a man named Leon H Wolf published a post on the front page of influential conservative blogging community RedState titled, “Attention, Ron Paul Supporters (Life is … Continue reading

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Are Politics Damaging Your Brand?

Via Mashable October 7, 2008 – 3:01 pm PDT – by Rob Diana19 Comments With the presidential election soon upon us, politics are at the forefront of many discussions. Given that “brand management” is such a hot topic, should these political … Continue reading

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Political Fact-Check Sites Proliferate, But Can They Break Through the Muck?

Via Media Shift by Mark Glaser, 1:52PM As the U.S. elections near the finish line, the presidential campaigns are throwing around enough verbal attacks and inflammatory advertising to make the average voter’s head spin. Fortunately, there are now three excellent … Continue reading

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Twitter to Launch Special Site for Tracking the Presidential Debates

Via Mashable September 25, 2008 – 5:49 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow Back in January, some developers built a mashup called Politweets to display live Twitter messages relating to the candidates during the Republican and Democratic primaries. At the … Continue reading

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Never Mind Swiftboating How About SwiftGoogling

Via Mashable During the last presidential election in the United States a new term came into being. The term was swiftboating, which according to Wikipedia means “is American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some … Continue reading

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Watch The Political Spin Machine With Google “In Quotes”

Via Tech Crunch by Jason Kincaid on September 23, 2008 Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches … Continue reading

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Online vote-swapping legal but voter beware, Elections Canada warns

Via the CBC Canada’s electoral watchdog has deemed online vote-swapping to be legal but warned that the scheme could be used to dupe voters into casting their ballot for certain parties. Elections Canada began looking into the issue after a … Continue reading

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How Greenwald’s Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message Online

Via MediaShift by Simon Owens, 1:24PM Last month, Politico’s Mike Allen asked presidential hopeful John McCain the seemingly innocent question of how many houses he owned. McCain’s response — “I’ll have my staff get to you” — became a major … Continue reading

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