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.
| Read more ...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.
| Read more ...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.
| Read more ...Recent blog posts
- Changes at Change.org: A Media Hub for Social Action
- Daily Digest: Why '08 Will Be the Election of Databases (One Way or Another)
- Daily Digest: From Field to Felonies to Fine-Tuned Targeting
- Must-Read: Zack Exley on the "New Organizers"
- Daily Digest: Was Last Night a Waste of 90 Minutes? Debatable
- "Townhall" Style Debate a Dot-Bust
- Daily Digest: "Open Townhall Debate" Neither Open Nor Townhall. Discuss.
- Networked Community, or Hyperconnected Mob? What to do about Internet Attention Deficit Disorder
- Social Security Administration Refuses to Budge
- Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?


