Mahalo Daily Summarizes Debates

February 7th, 2008 Richard

One of my favorite new video blogs, Mahalo Daily, created some short entertaining videos “summarizing” the January 31 Republican and Democratic debates.

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The upTake and Citizen Journalism

February 7th, 2008 Richard

My video blogging friend Chuck Olson and others formed a media company, the uptake, the purpose of which is to cover politics via citizen journalists.

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Does the Web Transform Politics?

February 7th, 2008 Richard

The answer to the title of this post is “yes” if you believe Micah L. Sifry, one of the founders of the techPresident blog, which is blog dedicated to discussion of how the presidential candidates are using the web. He explains in this post why he believes the internet has resulted in the decline in big media and big money and the author goes so far as to say that Hillary Clinton would have already wrapped up the nomination if not for the internet.

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