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Edwards campaign all over social network sites

Since you ask… why yes I was quoted in the Washington Post today!
All the presidential hopefuls are online. Everyone’s got a Web site. A few hired full-time bloggers and videographers. Most have MySpace profiles, just a click away from “friending” a supporter. Yet Edwards has taken his Internet presence a step further, fully [...]

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Blogging from the top down

Salon has a very interesting article today by Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise on why she turned down the job that Amanda Marcotte briefly held with the Edwards campaign. She also addresses what she thinks is a major flaw in their online strategy: by making bloggers “official” you remove most of the value of their [...]

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My candidate is Good!

This entry was also posted at techPresident.com.
I tend to be more interested in “how the web is using them” than “how the candidates are using the web” in techPresident’s mission. So of course I’m fascinated by the John Edwards Is Good website. I like the ambiguity of this slogan. Does [...]

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Progressive bloggers give up on Edwards

I hate to write about something while I am still so mad about it, but I just can’t sit still with this any longer.

I just learned that the other progressive activist blogger (Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare’s Sister) that was hired by Edwards’ campaign for being a progressive activist blogger has also resigned for [...]

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Low blow

As if I needed more reasons not to like her, Hillary Clinton’s campaign appears to have bought the domain name edwards08-dot-com and pointed it to hillaryclinton-dot-com. Actually, I’m not sure who registered it.
I heard about this story from a blogger I don’t know, and I looked up the domain and the WHOIS information is [...]

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Edwards ‘08. For real.

Brian and I recorded a short video response to John Edwards’ YouTube campaign announcement. It was super-easy to do right from the web camera built into my laptop. Now that I am no longer a video blogging virgin, perhaps I’ll try it again some time.

Here’s one of my recent favorite John Edwards [...]

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Sharing the burden

One of the many reasons that it’s so smart for the Edwards campaign to utilize existing social networking web sites is that they can all collectively handle the load that his personal web site apparently cannot.
The campaign already has groups on MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube as well as his own One Corps site. [...]

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Ug!

I fully understand why JohnEdwards.com is not exactly the most responsive web site at this moment. But I am a bit concerned about his advertised “live blogging at 11 am CST” (in 2 minutes) when I see this message:
Please stand by…
The One America Committee Blog is down momentarily for a code upgrade. [...]

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Scoble on the campaign trail?

Uberblogger Robert Scoble is traveling with the John Edwards campaign, but he’s “keeping [the blog] relatively politics free” and is “not going to write a lot about John Edwards.” Huh?
Anyway, this is the interesting part:
I’m wearing my ConvergeSouth shirt in honor of Sue Polinsky, who really is responsible for getting us in a [...]

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Elizabeth Edwards, keeping it real

Cross-posted from OrangePolitics.
I just read this article by my friend Micah Sifry about Elizabeth Edwards. He says she is the “only person who I think we can genuinely say is participating in the blogosphere, as opposed to just using it.” One of his supporting examples is Eliabeth’s visit to OP to answer some [...]

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