Democrats are allowing select bloggers access to the floor of the national convention in Denver this summer. Fifty-five bloggers have been chosen: ALASKA: Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis: divasblueoasis.blogspot.com ALABAMA: Doc’s Political Parlor: www.politicalparlor.net ARKANSAS: Under The Dome.com: www.underthedome.com ARIZONA: Ted Prezelski – Rum, Romanism and Rebellion: www.rumromanismrebellion.net CALIFORNIA: Calitics: Calitics.com COLORADO: SquareState.net: squarestate.net CONNECTICUT: My [...]

MSNBC has announced that, after the live AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum has concluded, non-NBC media, blogs and Internet media may make unlimited use of the debate and excerpts, with appropriate credit to MSNBC, for the purpose of analyzing, reporting on, or commenting on the Forum.  While many would consider this fair use, MSNBC is making [...]

Tonight, CNN will be hosting the first of the CNN-YouTube debates of presidential contenders. Democratic candidates will be answering videotaped questions that were submitted by people via YouTube. Questions were submitted between June 14 and July 22 and then selected by CNN’s political team. Some are heralding the event as a sort of democratic revolution, [...]

Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday called on Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean to make video from any Democratic presidential debates available “for free and without restriction.” Obama supports a call from Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig to share the debate videos and eliminate unnecessary regulation of political speech. “Technology has exploded the opportunity [...]

YouTube has announced a new channel for political videos, Citizentube,. As YouTube’s political video blog, Citizentube’s mission is “to add fuel to the revolution that is YouTube politics.” What is YouTube politics? The answer to that question is as varied as the users who jump onto the platform. But it’s one thing for certain: a [...]

Chinese authorities are considering new rules to regulate blogging and podcasting in China. Long Xinmin, director of China’s General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP), said March 12 that his administration, together with several other departments, is working on new rules on Internet publishing activities. Long said the rules will help guarantee freedom of speech [...]

Massachusetts‚Äô Governor Deval Patrick is joining the ranks of political podcasters. Patrick is planning to launch his podcast at the end of the week. The governor will record three-to-five minutes of remarks, then making them available for downloading from Mass-dot-gov, the state’s official Web site. Although the details are still being finalized, Patrick says he [...]

The Washington Post has an interesting take on the growing importance of podcasting, video podcasting and other Internet media in the world of politics. Not long ago, an anonymous video on the Internet would have elicited little more than amusement from the candidate under attack. But the 2006 campaign, in which then-Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) [...]

Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced her presidential ambitions, joining Barack Obama and John Edwards not only in the presidential race, but in making her announcement using an Internet video. Clinton appears to be embracing the use of Internet media as a tool for presenting her message to the public, and also to allow for more [...]

U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D) has announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a run for the White House with a three-minute Internet video clip. “I’ll be filing papers today to create a presidential exploratory committee,” said Obama.”For the next several weeks, I am going to talk with people from around the country, listening [...]