While students show up to caucus in Iowa? Maybe, if Facebook can help it; CNET laments the lack of attention paid to tech policy in 2007; the Ron Paul blimp flies while John Edwards is denied funds. Fair?; Garrett Graff gets Slashdotted; and thousands of Ron Paul supporters tell NPR just who they are.

The FEC recommends that John Edwards not receive matching funds for the $4.3 million he raised on ActBlue, and DailyKos protests; a single Republican activist has a list of 71 million Christian voters, prompting the left to grasp for their own; Craig Newmark co-hosts an Obama fundraiser; Glamour magazine launches a group blog about the race; Barack Obama ba-reaks the 200,000 MySpace barrier; Chris Dodd speaks at Google, asks them to write his tech policy; and Matt Lewis says negative blogging is just hitting its stride.

Matt Bai identifies the core lesson of the Dean campaign, and says that almost no 2008 campaigns have actually learned it; ActBlue seeks to move beyond individual fundraising; William Beutler stays on the Republican ActBlue beat; the ONE campaign produces videos of the candidates' statements on poverty, but most Republicans aren't involved; OuijaVote 2008 is the first project to restore our "paranormal democracy"; new Compete data breaks down candidate site popularity by state; and our Hitwise charts show Mike Huckabee pulling even with Ron Paul in his share of web traffic.

David All's Slatecard pulls in its first modest haul, but no Republican site has managed to approximate ActBlue's success; Fred Thompson decentralizes his volunteer calling methods, released voter names into the wild; VA Senate opponents Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner post wildly different campaign videos; and House Republicans are Twittering, are "at the bar downtown talking 2 voterz";

Reactions across the web to the first MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue with John Edwards; capturing the youth vote is just about showing up on Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube; an anti-Hillary Clinton Facebook group continues to grow; a new rock video promotes fact-checking site Politifact; a strange story about John Edwards, a woman he met in a bar, and some hard-to-find promotional videos; a profile of young and energetic Ron Paul supporters; ActBlue is now helping local politicians raise money; and the winner of Mitt Romney's ad contest is announced, and no, it isn't the creator of the "Way!" video.

The problems of comparing ActBlue to ABC PAC; a profile of Robert Bluey's Conservative Bloggers Briefings; and why aren't more candidates using Google Adwords to advertise against news- and issues-based keywords?

Fallout from Elizabeth Edwards' quote; Rocketboom on how Denver '08 will be open access; cracks in the liberal-left; bundling for the unbundled; Ellen Goodman weighs in on net-gender; YouTube YouChoose has issues; ABC and NBC liberate pres-video; Republicans use the net for stealth attacks; and we win an award...

The Web on the Candidates

As reported by James Kotecki, Wesley Clark has started to produce videos for his website, stopIranWar.com. While Kotecki is upset that Clark isn't mentioning Kotecki's name responding directly to voters, it's an encouraging step and a sign that Clark may be getting closer to announcing his candidacy.

Giuliani's video closet: PrezVid's Peter Hauck has some advice for Rudy: "Buckle Up, It's Gonna Be a Bumpy Ride." After listing the many of Rudy's less-than-conservative merits, Hauck posts two videos -- one a mayoral campaign video from 1989 showing a very family-friendly Rudy, the other a "Welcome to CPAC" video showcasing Rudy's liberal positions on social issues -- that should provide fodder for his conservative critics in weeks and months to come.