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.

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!

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.

[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.]