[Yesterday, I spent an hour on the phone with Joe Green, co-founder of Project Agape, a still-partially-in-stealth start-up that is developing political social networking tools and platforms. It launched with a major new application built for Facebook Platform, called Causes. In the interview, Green talks about what he learned from his first experiment in building an online social network tuned around politics (See my March 2006 PdF article "Essembly.com: Finally, a Friendster for Politics"), his theories of online organizing, new features that Causes is going to roll out, tools Project Agape is building for MySpace and elsewhere, how to deal with privacy concerns, and how Causes differs from Change.org.]

Discovering the major and minor edits made to candidates' Wikipedia profiles; Jonah Goldberg argues against the idea that the web is inherently suited to liberals; surprising findings about the effect of Facebook and MySpace on political opinion; Change.org gets into the presidential quiz game; Newt launches a new site called "American Solutions"; and the difficulties of registering and logging into candidates' sites.

In my Inbox the other day I found a link to the new Presidential Matchmaker on Change.org. "Find out which presidential candidate most matches your views" promised the email. So, I went and guess what, Change.org thinks I should marry Hillary Clinton. And they're right, I am a huge Hillary fan and recently sent her a donation!

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A good piece in today’s New York Times looks at the frenetic amount of philanthropy taking place online, with a particular look at how young people are using Facebook, and it includes a quote from PdF contributor Allison Fine.

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Jennifer A Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She currently lives in the Lower East Side of New York City, and works as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media.

Nedeau became specialized in digital efforts while working for New Media Strategies in Arlington, VA where she employed corporate and non-profit online campaigns utilizing the power of blogs, social networks, video sharing, social news, microblogging sites and message boards to analyze information, promote and protect her clients.

Nedeau began her career in political journalism and has been published by the likes of NewYorkTimes.com, Washingtonpost.com and Stateline.org; she has been a fellow at the Israel Embassy, worked on independent research for The Brookings Institution; worked for America Abroad Media and held several internships in places such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional office and NBC 11 in San Francisco.

In August 2008, Nedeau was selected to be the Editor of the Women’s Rights blog for Change.org where she facilitates daily discussion about the feminist movement as it relates to politics, technology and social norms.

Additionally, Nedeau volunteers for New Leaders Council, a non-profit that offers exclusive training for young leaders, where she serves as the Chief Technology Officer and participates as a member of local Advisory Boards. Nedeau grew up in San Francisco and attended The George Washington University in Washington, DC where she received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism.

This interview was conducted on June 15th at 6:00pm and has been edited for clarity.

Hear how Jen Nedeau made the transition from old media to new media, and hear what disturbing trends she sees in digital bias.

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