Lots of people are wondering what will happen to the Obama campaigns huge network of online supporters and on-the-ground organizers, and . But so far there's little hard information. Yesterday, Chris Hughes, one of the Obama new media team's key staffers, posted a short note on his blog at myBO, that began to offer some answers...

More reporting from the front lines of academic research on politics and the internet: Now I'm sitting in on a panel with presentations on the connections between the Dean campaign and the New Left (no, he didn't slum with the Weathermen); John Kerry's innovative (!) use of the web post-2004; and Italian firebrand and antipolitician extraordinaire, Beppe Grillo.

More on whether online activism can be turned into offline votes fro the Wharton Schooll; Ari Melber analyzes Barack Obama's impressive use of social networking and text messaging to target and organize young voters; a new Pew study shows that young people are getting much of their news from social networking sites; Jeff Jarvis charts the arc of the "change" meme; an anti-Huckabee video makes the leap from the web to TV; Kos urges his readers to vote for Romney in Michigan; Obama scores endorsements from Kerry, Miller, and Lamont; and Matt Stoller hopes Lamont can help turn Obama to his side.

The Web on the Candidates
MyDD's Jonathan Singer interviewed John Kerry on his book tour and Kerry unexpectedly mentioned that John McCain had approached him in 2004 about joining the ticket as Vice President.  While Kerry declined to discuss this more, when pushed by Singer to confirm the remark, he replied, "Absolutely correct."  Needless to say, Singer doesn't think the allegation bodes well for McCain.  "This story could hardly come at a worse time for McCain, whose campaign for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination is already noticeably foundering," he writes.

Michael McElroy at the Caucus wraps up the blogosphere's treatment of John McCain in light of his recent trip to Iraq, his disappointing fundraising numbers, and his alleged overture to John Kerry about being Vice President in 2004.  Kevin Drum said about McCain's trip to Iraq, "Note to conservatives... do you really think you can get away with pretending that the whole trip went smoothly and the press is merely being unfair in its reporting?" ( McCain has been criticized for painting a rosy picture of Iraq after his visit there).  Michelle Malkin, however, said that "while I'm no fan of his, what he has been saying the past week is the reality we saw when we were in Baghdad in January. It ain’t a stroll in the park. It’s a war zone, for heaven’s sake. But it ain’t all Armageddon either.”  More at the Caucus.