Cross-posted on techPresident. The Clinton campaign is using microsites (small, standalone sites separate from the main campaign site) for both offense and defense this week. First, the offense, in this case a clear attempt to humanize a candidate...
EVERYBODY’S getting in on the political act these days, even the T-shirt makers. On Thursday, online shirt/gear maker CafePress sent out a note promoting their services as a political message-spreader. CafePress works by letting people upload...
Time for a little of The Good, The Bad and the Downright Ugly of Online Politics Let’s start with the Ugly: The travesty of political robo-calls, in which Slate’s William Saletan takes on a campaign tool that needs to die. Next, the Bad:...
Update: Apparently, the problem was on Google’s end. A little bird dropped a message off this weekend that someone’s running Google Ads for Ohio Congressmember Bob Latta and pointing them at the Republican fundraising site Slatecard...
This weekend, Leslie Wayne reported in The Caucus that the very successful Democratic fundraising site ActBlue is trying to expand beyond its emphasis on candidates and into the world of fundraising for political action committees and labor unions...
Well, it’s a tactic most of us won’t get to use, but the Politico’s Mike Allen reports today on a nice side effect of this weekend’s Oprah/Obama show: The Obama campaign says that 68 percent of the people who signed up for...
Friday Fun comes a day early this week, with a terrific video mashup courtesy of the CamPain2008 YouTube channel. Excellent work! It doesn’t tell us much about the political world, but that does nothing to detract from a standalone piece of...
A couple of interesting scandal-related stories today: first off, as Wired and others are reporting, some excellent research by an expert with the company SecureWorks has found the spammer behind the recent barrage of unsolicited Ron Paul emails...
Hey kids, don’t forget about tonight’s political marketing panel discussion — if you haven’t registered yet, you can still show up, though you’ll have to pay a few bucks extra (tragically, I ain’t gettin’ a...
Quick Hits returns! Last seen in abbreviated form on September 7th, it’s been off training hard for the ’08 campaign season. Crowdsourcing the Latest Giuliani Scandal. Kos sez, let’s come up with a catchy name for Giuliani’s...