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March 11, 2010
Special Report on Politics And Web 2.0
political webCampaigns have come a long way since the 2004 presidential election. This year, candidates found their way onto YouTube, Google, and Facebook. How's the conversation going?

Pew: 2008 Election Broke Record for Political Web
[April 16, 2009] New study quantifies groundswell of online interest in the political process.

Online Political Ads Play Catch-Up to Social Media
[April 10, 2009] Experts see paid political advertising on the Web as an important niche, but still not much more.

Obama Gets to Keep His BlackBerry
[January 22, 2009] After resisting staffers' efforts to give up the mobile e-mail device, the new president gets his way.

House Report Blasts Martin's FCC Oversight
[December 09, 2008] Energy and Commerce Committee leadership takes chairman to task for secretive regulatory reviews, some of it with 'he said, she said' evidence.

Why Can't Government Be More Like the Internet?
[November 18, 2008] Google CEO Eric Schmidt pushes an innovation-themed policy agenda and offers an impassioned call for Washington to reform the way it does business.

Huffington: 'Obama Not Elected Without Internet'
[November 07, 2008] S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom complains about 'YouTubeification' of the world.

Spammers Latch on to Obama Victory
[November 05, 2008] We may be ready for change, but the spammers are readier.

Tech's Eyes Turn Now to Obama, Dems
[November 05, 2008] The new administration promises change, but how will that play with the IT and Internet industry's agenda?

Total Coverage: Tracking the Online Election
[November 04, 2008] In an online election frenzy like we've never seen, the Internet is shedding its fringe-media status.

Report Says Leftward Tilt Online For Dems
[October 23, 2008] Election frenzy grips the Web, but several research firms identify a left-leaning tilt.

Ohio Election Site Back up Amid Fraud Fights
[October 22, 2008] Election site in key swing state is taken down amid partisan bickering, mutual allegations of election shenanigans.

Google CEO Hits the Campaign Trail With Obama
[October 21, 2008] Following his endorsement of the Democrat, Schmidt talks about the economy, energy and a rebirth of the manufacturing industry in key swing state.

YouTube Rebuffs McCain Palin Campaign Ad
[October 15, 2008] UPDATED: Online rights groups blast big media for getting the ads pulled.

McCain, Obama Agree to Open the Debates
[October 08, 2008] Both candidates agree that citizen questions should play a greater participation in the debates. But will they take action?

Palin, Ifill and The Web's Countdown to Debate
[October 02, 2008] Latest VP controversy comes on the eve of the debate, and everyone's got an opinion.

Web 2.0: Political Opinion 'on Steroids'
[September 19, 2008] Social media is putting its stamp on the intersection of technology and politics.

Obama up in Web Spend; McCain Surges in Video
[September 05, 2008] New analysis profiles two candidates' online ad campaigns, finding Obama more invested in the Web, though McCain might be reaching the voters who count.

McCain, Obama and a Polarized Online Media
[September 04, 2008] New Web analyses give more dimension to media treatment of presidential candidates.

Tech a Big Player at GOP Convention
[September 04, 2008] With the hurricane fading out and Palin taking the stage, buzz about the Republican Convention is back at the center of the Internet.

LexisNexis: No Liberal Tilt for Obama
[August 28, 2008] New analysis from LexisNexis challenges notion of media fawning over Obama; Nielsen study confirms the Democrat is still the darling of the Web.

Politics a-Go-Go on the Web
[August 27, 2008] In the first presidential election of the Web 2.0 era, social media and a glut of online content have drawn a blueprint for a different kind of election.

On the Web, Everyone Gets a Vote
[June 05, 2008] Internet Week panel considers how the participatory Web has expanded the political conversation; what works and what doesn't.

Tracking The Virtual Primary
[February 05, 2008] Donkeys and elephants and laptops, oh my! The presidential election takes center stage on the Internet today.

The 'Political Web' Isn't Just a Myth
[January 15, 2008] New research finds that twice as many people are following this year's presidential campaign on the Internet than in 2004.

Political Web: A Promise Not Yet Fulfilled
[December 27, 2007] Wasn't the Internet supposed to reshape politics? A look at how the presidential candidates used the Web in 2007, and what they plan for the future.

ABC News Picks Facebook As Its Running Mate
[November 26, 2007] With its new partnership with ABC News, Facebook is going big time.

The YouTube Presidential Debates?
[May 04, 2007] UPDATED: Should networks own exclusive rights to debate video? A new online alliance says absolutely not.

Political Web 2.0 in 2006
[November 03, 2006] This year, candidates found their way on to YouTube, Google, and Facebook. But has it changed the way politics work?

Microsoft Plants Another Flag on Spaces
[August 02, 2006] The software giant discovers Live, but more indigenous tribes already live there.

Feedburner Acquires Blogbeat
[July 17, 2006] The advertising firm acquires more ways to find out who's reading what.

Netscape Site Revamp Looks Familiar to Some
[June 16, 2006] Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but Digg isn't flattered.

Will Scoble's Fans Go With Him?
[June 12, 2006] Bloggers say Microsoft's chief tech evangelist is leaving Microsoft because he's sick of it. Guess what Robert Scoble says?

Tim Bray: The Garibaldi of RSS
[June 09, 2006] The father of XML is working to bring order from the chaos that is RSS.

The Metrics on Blogs
[May 16, 2006] Top blogger Steve Rubel encourages companies to engage the blogosphere but warns that hard metrics are still a work in progress.

Apple vs. Bloggers, Round Two
[April 20, 2006] An appeals court will consider whether Apple's need to know trumps a reporter's promise to protect sources.

'Net Exempt From Most Campaign Finance Laws
[March 27, 2006] New regulations target only paid online advertising and leaves all other forms of communications beyond FEC rule.

Six Apart Makes a SplashBlog Acquisition
[March 13, 2006] Blogging tools provider adds photo delivery via cell phone.

'Annoying e-Mail' Law Stirs Blogosphere
[January 10, 2006] New amendment extending telephone harassment laws to Internet stirs pulse of bloggers. Too broad a law?

Blog-Spotting With IBM
[November 07, 2005] Big Blue's new software helps businesses monitor and analyze blogs, wikis and other community content.

House Defeats Political Blogging Bill
[November 03, 2005] Lawmakers say online speech subject to some provisions of campaign finance laws.

House to Vote on Political Blogging Rules
[November 02, 2005] UPDATED: Lawmakers prepare for free speech or giant soft money loophole debate.

Blogs of a Different Color
[October 18, 2005] At the BlogOn Conference, David Weinberger discussed the direction blogs are taking in the corporate world and the media.

Corporate Blogging Takes Off
[October 17, 2005] Businesses are plugging away at it.

When Screen Readers Meet Feed Readers
[October 14, 2005] Assistive tools for the blind balked by RSS software.

VoIP Bloggers Gain Influence
[September 21, 2005] Daily commentators are helping shape new products, company strategy and regulations.

Google's All About The Bloggle
[September 14, 2005] Google launches Blog Search Beta, but keeps AdWords ads out of it for now.

EFF to Apple: Too Much Too Soon
[September 14, 2005] Online civil liberty group argues that Apple subpoenaed Bloggers prematurely.

Sifting Through The Blogs
[July 22, 2005] As blogging moves into businesses, presenting useful content and links is essential.

Dark Blogs and Voices in the Wilderness
[June 20, 2005] Business likes the buzz of blogging, but the real juice may be inside the firewall.

Will McCain-Feingold Control Political Bloggers?
[June 03, 2005] Online political activists tell Federal Election Commission that blogs are part of the solution, not the problem.

Yahoo Serious About Employee Blogging
[June 02, 2005] The Internet media company joins a list of other companies that have posted guidelines for staffers with a yen to yak online.

NewsGator Buys FeedDemon
[May 17, 2005] Deal lets NewsGator move out of Outlook and onto the desktop.

IBM Urges Employees to Blog With Care
[May 16, 2005] Big Blue lays down rules of the road for employees engaging in blogging.

AOL Offers Free Blogging Tools
[May 06, 2005] AOL offers free software that lets users update journals via IM.

Bloggers And The First Amendment
[April 22, 2005] A Hostway survey reports bloggers should have the same rights as traditional journalists.

Lawmakers Target FEC Blog Rules
[April 15, 2005] Bills would exempt Internet from all provisions of campaign finance laws.

Blogging Without Getting Burned
[April 08, 2005] As the public rushes to the blogosphere, employers and employees have to figure out what's right -- and what's stupid.

Read Your Blogs, Check Your Packages
[March 30, 2005] The newly-acquired Ask Jeeves property of Bloglines resumes its quest for the universal inbox, adding package-tracking updates.

Macromedia Taps Into Blog Craze
[March 23, 2005] The company updates its Web Publishing System with RSS to accommodate a rise in non-specialist intranet and extranet publishers.

Yahoo Finally Hits Blog Scene
[March 16, 2005] Late to the party, Yahoo joins other search entities with social networking and blogging services of its own.

A Higher Google Standard?
[February 24, 2005] Should Google put a stop to spyware infiltrating Blogspot?

Should Yahoo Buy Six Apart?
[February 11, 2005] Executives deny acquisition rumors. But is this a deal too good to pass up?

Ask Jeeves Goes to the Blogs
[February 08, 2005] The search giant acquires the parent company of blog and RSS pioneer Bloglines.



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