We already know that John McCain is a huge ABBA fan, from his blog. 
But what about Barack Obama? What’s on his iPod?
Obama says he has ”pretty eclectic tastes”:
The list of bands reads like the acts at a summer music festival, with the Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow and Ludacris all in the mix.
Obama said that, growing up, [...]

The SFGate has published an interesting piece that looks at how Internet media affected Hillary Clinton’s campaign:
What hurt Clinton most, political analysts say, is that she couldn’t consistently use the newfound ubiquity of video to soften her image with voters. Or, as George Washington University Professor and new-media analyst Michael Cornfeld said, “It’s like the [...]

Earlier in the week, Elisabeth noted that Barack Obama had wrapped enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination and that he is actively using podcasting as part of his campaign strategy.
Obama has run a remarkable campaign, and his campaign’s has made innovative use of social media, embracing not just podcasting, but Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, [...]

On the evening of the last batch of U.S. primary elections, Presidential candidate Barack Obama wrapped enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.
Although Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton has not formally ended her Presidential bid, it is looking fairly assured that Obama will, after his official nomination at this summer’s convention in Denver, face off [...]

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 Left Nutmeg: myleftnutmeg.com
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: DCist.com: dcist.com
DELAWARE: TommyWonk: [...]

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, putting citizens [...]

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 for people [...]

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 place [...]

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 ,while [...]