The Web on the Candidates

• Just after techPresident's Jack McEnany posted a review of Mike Huckabee's exploratory site, the site went down (must be all that techPresident traffic!). Upon finding a Go Daddy parked url in the place of Huckabee's site, Todd Ziegler of the Bivings Report wrote, "This is the kind of message you get when (a) your site isn't done yet and you are parking a URL you bought on GoDaddy or (b) you go over your bandwidth limit for the month and haven't put in more cash." The site, up now, was down for at least an hour.
• Over at PrezVid, Jeff Jarvis catches up with Iain Dale, creator of 18 Doughty Street, a conservative British Internet TV channel. Jarvis posted a video in which he and Dale chat about American presidential candidates' use of video ("He says Clinton’s Hillcasts are just pieces to camera; 'she’s not interacting with people, she’s talking at them.' He says that Obama’s site is fresh; I say he’s not saying [anything] but Dale argues 'you don’t have to say much; David Cameron didn’t say much' at the start of a campaign... He advises that candidates should not (like McCain) make their videos too slick. And if candidates have blogs, they should join in personally sometimes. 'You’ve got to personalize it.'"). Definitely a site to keep an eye on.
• The National Journal's Technology Daily has announced that the Tech Daily Dose, a blog originally launched last year to cover the elections and other events, will become a permanent, daily blog. It will be a free site featuring original posts from blogger Andrew Noyes and will occasionally repost Tech Daily articles (Technology Daily and the National Journal require a subscription).
• Ryan Sager of the New York Sun has launched a new site called NYSunPolitics.com, which will focus on the 2008 campaign. It features pieces from columnists Liz Mair, Ezra Klein, and Bob Bauer, indices that "take an average of all of the major, national, public polls in a given month and plot them over time to track the candidates' standings," and a blog written by Sager.

The Candidates on the Web

• Chris Dodd (remember him?) has added something significantly new to his home page for the first time in weeks, a video of Dodd talking at the University of South Carolina about the educational challenges America faces. Over on his blog however, blogger Reid Wilson has been busy, writing daily roundups of Dodd's coverage in the press. This video was first posted there; hopefully the front page will feature more from the blog (it does feature blog headlines below the fold on the bottom right).
• Barack Obama has a new feature on his site announcing that "You Own This Campaign," asking supporters to either make a first-time donation or match someone else's donation. The copy reads, "We're going to transform the political process by bringing together hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to build a campaign responsible to no one but the people. No matter what you give, you can participate in our donor recruitment drive."

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