Campaigns & Elections
Dave Witzel, 06/13/2008 - 4:32pm

A bit of Friday the 13th entertainment. Go ahead, the boss isn't looking. Is she? fakeJohnMcCain vs. fakeBarackObama on twitter.

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Dave Witzel, 06/10/2008 - 2:54pm

Debategraph brings collaboration to Obama's VP selection process -- add your analysis. David Price, co-founder of Debategraph, will be taking question live and online tomorrow -- ask him about the process.

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Micah L. Sifry, 12/18/2007 - 8:36pm

On any given day, I've got about four or five books that I'm currently reading--or trying to finish--and I can understand why some people try to take a "reading week" (or month) where they do nothing but catch up with the piles of things that we wish we had time to read. I'm taking a break from my own piles to offer some capsule reviews of several books I did manage to read this year that cover the emerging world of technology and politics.

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Voting Machines = Headaches

By Allison Fine

After seven years of reforms, millions of dollars in new machinery, there are so many problems with voting technology in San Francisco county that it cannot certify this election until a hand recount of ballots is completed.

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Campaign Web Sites, The Morning After

By Chris Casey

If campaign web sites had feelings, then on the morning after Election Day many would feel like a bride or groom left at the altar. Months of planning, buildup and being the center of attention ends abruptly in a frozen lonely stare.

After all of that work for their candidate, recruiting volunteers, raising money, building a community of supporters, and spreading campaign news, a very large number of campaign web sites freeze on Election Day. And that is a big mistake, for the winners and losers alike.

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Justin Oberman, 06/22/2007 - 2:33pm

 Archives Images Edwards Convention 3 I am often told by people who "know" that, like the bl

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Justin Oberman, 06/22/2007 - 12:43pm

Obamamobile-1 With little fanfare the Barak Obama campaign has followed the Edwards and Hillary campaign in launching a mult

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Justin Oberman, 05/21/2007 - 4:57pm

Ringiton Just the other day I was talking with some colleagues wondering why there where never ever "Bushism" ringtones that become widespread.

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Justin Oberman, 05/16/2007 - 8:39pm

 Images Hillary-Cell-Phone-Image A couple of days ago I wrote here on PDF that Hillary

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Justin Oberman, 05/14/2007 - 10:30am

The New York Post is reporting that Hillary Clinton will anounce today a “mobile-to-mobile text-messaging push” to garner support for her presidential campaign.

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