Daily Digest: 4/6/07

The Web on the Candidates -- Daily Digest Lite

  • Citizen Kate is on a mission "to find out what it takes to be the next great leader in this country."  She's been videotaping herself following around Barack Obama, finally got a chance to touch him!  "They say dreams can come true here, and so they did. Citizen Kate touched Barack Obama! I mean I think [he] did." (via PrezVid)     
  • CitizenTube (also known as Steve Grove) has posted a "Welcome to citizentube" video that that asks viewers to upload video responses to the question, "What issue matters most to YOU?"   For James Kotecki it's "getting people to care about political issues in the first place."  Stuart Moffat wants everyone to turn off the lights for at least five minutes a day.  Some of the other responses seem only loosely related to the question.    

The Candidates on the Web

  • Tom Tancredo has launched a blog to coincide with his new site, and from a technology standpoint it's not bad.  It's hosted on Typepad, he's using YouTube videos, social bookmarking services, comments, and RSS feeds, and blogger Mike Tate is posting throughout the day.

In Case You Missed It...

Draft Fred Thompson movement launches its website
The draft movement for conservative actor and former Senator, Fred Thompson, has launched its website under the refreshingly simply URL -- Fred08.com.

Report: Obama's Unique Visitors Up 27 Percent, Clinton Down 34
Today, Comscore released a new report comparing the websites of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. As intuition may lead you, Senator Obama fares very well in this study.

A New YouTube Scandal and A Fast-Growing Facebook Group
Via YouTube Most Popular, a video of students at American University protesting presidential adviser Karl Rove.  There's also been remarkable growth on an anti-Hillary Clinton Facebook group.

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