We're at the Politics Online conference, being busy and belated getting the digest done. But it's done! Google continues to map the primary results; are the Clinton and Obama "red telephone" ads really the "first breakout hits of the YouTube campaign"?; more on Obama as Apple; those conference mp3's are on their way to your inbox; Obama is dominating our Hitwise charts; Brave New Films' anti-McCain videos are getting big; Hillaryis44 creator uncovered, five people rejoice; Obama's campaign boasts of 1.5 million calls to today's primary states.
Rounding up last night's results, explanations, and prognostications; what's CNN? Online politicos tracked the action with Twitter, Google Maps, Flickr, and YouTube instead; Hillary is favored by Microsoft employees, Barack by Google: Hillsoft vs. Goobama?; Voices without Votes gives us international impressions of the race; what do we see when we take a closer look at John McCain?; and online advertising is stuck in the dark ages.
John Wonderlich, writing at the Sunlight Foundation blog, picked up on a mashup of earmark data and Google Maps and made an awesome discovery: it’s ridiculously simple to mashup earmark data on Google Earth.