Russian President Dmitry Medvedev kicked off his video blog earlier this week with a discussion about his upcoming address to the World Policy Conference in Evian.
43 year old Medvedev has been one the Internet since 1996, so it’s only natural he would follow the lead of other world leaders, like Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“Putin is a post-Soviet leader. [...]
Internet TV site Current TV and microblogging platform Twitter are teaming up for interactive coverage of the Oct 7 presidential debate.
The project overlays real-time Twitter posts over a live broadcast of the debate.
Here’s how it works:
Tune in on October 7th at 9pm EST/ 6pm PST for the Live Presidential Debate. Find Current TV on your [...]
It looks like Cindy McCain is the latest social media hijacking victim.
A Twitter account has been set up with her name, and it’s spewing irreverent info:
At this point, “she” only has 20 followers, so the influence of this fake account will be minimal.
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Barack Obama has introduced a new tool for catering to his wired backers - the Obama ‘08 iPhone app (app store link).
Features:
Call Friends: A great volunteering tool that lets you make a difference any time you want by talking to people you already know. Your contacts are prioritized by key battleground states, and you can make [...]
Twitter has announced a new site, election.twiter.com, that tracks Twitter conversations of politics in real time.
During the first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi and each subsequent debate leading up to and beyond election day, Twitter plans to perform real-time algorithmic analysis on millions of unedited public reactions.
The site is addictive and it should be even [...]
The U.S. Department of State has launched a worldwide competition aimed at “enhancing the global dialogue on democracy”. The launch is timed to coincide with the United Nations’ first International Day of Democracy, September 15, 2008.
With the contest, the Department of State is making a big Web 2.0 leap, complete with a YouTube channel and Digg [...]
At the Democratic National Convention, Rachel Maddow interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt on how the Internet is changing politics.
More videos from the Big Tent, the Google-sponsored facility for alternative media, are available on YouTube.
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Internet media isn’t just being used by people wanting to limit the role of government in the US; it’s also being used the the goverment itself to attract people to serving in the military.
70 percent of the US Army’s new prospects are attracted via online video campaigns, according to digital ad agency MRM. The company [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]