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Mark Pesce, who closed out the second morning of plenary talks at PdF2008, has posted the text of his talk on "Hyperpolitics (American Sytle)." Dig in!

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Studying the post-election action in Kenya, I'm finding myself awed by how activists have seized upon a unique text-messaging tool to route around a government-imposed news blackout.

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Is the "Gays for Giuliani" campaign run by Democrats?; more video fun from Rudy Giuliani's past; after the YouTube debate, MySpace, Slate, Yahoo, and Huff Post are helping to change the face of the debates; mobile technology and the campaigns; and shadowing the campaigns in search of the next "macaca moment."

I am often told by people who "know" that, like the bl

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

The Web on the Candidates

Todd Zeigler at the Bivings Report articulates a strategy I've been trying to find the words for: he calls Ron Paul's dependence on third-party sites for campaign video, campaign news, scheduling, photo sharing, and social networking "distributed online campaigning." "His website is basically a mashup of all this stuff, with only a few core functions being performed by the website itself," Zeigler writes. "Obviously, as a long shot candidate with a limited budget, the use of these free tools is done out of necessity. But the strategy here is also very sound: by not giving supporters much to do on his own site he maximizes the amount of noise they make in other venues. It is the perfect approach for an insurgent candidate like Paul."