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German Blogosphere: No Political A-List Bloggers in Germany
So far, I haven’t mentioned on this weblog a whole lot about the masters thesis I’m writing. Partly because it didn’t seem to me to be interesting for external readers (that sounds wrong, doesn’t it?) you, partly because I’m simply not sure about the formal regulations surrounding the thesis: Is it allowed to publish any […]
Election campaign videos: Obama campaign goes for video, big time
With videos being considered the hot stuff (or was it social networking, or SMS campaigns? oh well…) for the ongoing election U.S. campaigns, Obama Girl’s I got a crush on Obama was probably the one that stuck out most in terms of coverage. (Hillary Clinton’s song picking contest and Soprano Spoof were far out, too, […]
DailyKos: The blogosphere represents Democrats’ values rather than Republicans’
In a great little interview talk between David Weinberger (”Everything is Miscellaneous“) and Markos Zuniga (dailykos.com), Markos discusses the characteristics of weblogs and their political implications. Of the things Markos said, one point in particular stuck out for me: The blogosphere, in contrast to traditional media, favors the kind of bottom-up, discussion-based and somewhat chaotic […]
U.S. election candidates’ websites: all the same
I haven’t been following up the U.S. online election campaigns closely enough. Just had a quick glance at some of the candidates’ websites. From what I’ve checked (mostly the Democrats) so far, I have to say I’m amazed: Those candidates’ websites all look practically the same, from the general structure to a near-identical intro screen […]
Barack Obama’s campaign takes control over supporter MySpace page
After a MySpace page supporting Barack Obama’s run for presidency - and created under his name, which is quite common for supporter or fan pages - became too popular, Obama’s campaign office took control of the page:
The page was originally created by 29 year old Joe Anthony. Anthony first created the profile after hearing […]
John Edwards’ (unofficial) Second Life campaign HQ vandalized
John Edwards was, as far as I know, the first candidate in the U.S. presidential elections with a campaign presence in Second Life (if only an unofficial one). As of yesterday, he’s got another first: His Second Life headquarters became vandalized.
Techpresident.com spoke it over with Jordan Bigel (aka Dire Lobo in Second Life) from InWorld […]
U.S. elections online campaigns discover social networks (again)
The last U.S. presidential election campaigns put weblogs on the agenda. So what’s the deal this time? Barack Obama’s campaigning website includes a social networking site, MyBarackObama. But what with social networking having been around for quite awhile (in web terms, that is)? Before the 2004 U.S. elections, the mainstream media had hardly noted the […]
TIME: Campaigning on the Blogs
TIME ran a story about the role of weblogs in American politics & campaigns:
The importance of political blogs is not new. Howard Dean’s presidential campaign relied heavily on Internet supporters, and by the summer of 2004 both political parties were inviting bloggers to their nominating conventions. But politicians are now wooing the bloggers harder than […]
Campaign Portfolio
I wasn’t involved all the way to the end, but still: Face2Net, the agency in charge of the online election for the German Social Democrats (SPD) during the federal elections 2005, have put online an campaign portfolio. You’ll find an overview about strategies, tools and platforms used during the campaign. Good stuff.
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an election tale
These days, I get asked quite regularly what’s up with the German elections, and what all the fuss is about anyway. I guess you could summarize it somewhat like this:
There was a country which was quite rich, but not everything was going very well. Unemployment was high, and the economy just wouldn’t kick off and […]
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reisserisch, aber sehr schön gemacht:
Wochenschau 2007
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online elections 2005
Nach und nach kommen sie doch noch alle aus der Reserve:
Die Grünen mit der Grünen Aktion, klassisches Volunteering.
SPD mit der Roten Wahlmannschaft, Volunteering, Online-Community und Grassroots. Außerdem ein bisschen negative campaigning (die falsche wahl) sowie ne handvoll Relaunches.
CDU rekrutiert mit TeAMZUKUNFT (was wohl eine Art Wortspiel mit den Initialen von LaMerkel sein soll), und ebenfalls […]
UK elections: SchreibDeinemRegierungsvertreter
Das gehört hier nicht wirklich hin, deshalb gepostet auf politik-digitals metablocker: Das Nachfolgeprojekt vom britischen eDemocracy-Klassiker FaxYourMP (2000) namens WriteToThem ist angelaufen. Und geht open source. Keep it up!
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My name is Peter Bihr. I live in Berlin, Germany. As a freelancer, I consult on web strategies, communities, blogging and social media. In this weblog, I jot down random thoughts, ideas and news. Hopefully, you'll find some are interesting for you, too. 