politics
Beijing Wide Open: Bloggers detained in Beijing for live blogging for a free Tibet
Tibetan-Canadian Free Tibet activist and director of Students For A Free Tibet Lhadon Tethong has been liveblogging from Beijing. The activists have gathered in Beijing exactly one year before the Olympic Games are about to start - tonight, there will be the official countdown ceremony.
Their live blog Beijing Wide Open has declared their goal to […]
Fox attacks Bloggers (brief video round-up)
This video is hilarious: A collection of some of the more - shall we say - rhetorically enthusiastic attacks on left wing non-right wing bloggers. The accusations go all the way from “hate speech” to “overthrowing the government”. (And that’s for DailyKos. Err… right.)
The one thing it does show pretty clear, though, is the importance […]
Peer-to-peer networks a threat to national security, or: How to track who pays your Congressman
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks allegedly threaten America’s national security, according to US Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).
Pardon me?
Waxman said…
… he was troubled by the possibility that foreign governments, terrorists or organized crime could gain access to documents that reveal national secrets.
Like, how? Oh, wait, here it comes. Summarizes ZDNet:
…peer-to-peer networks can […]
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 […]