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Ari Melber, 12/20/2007 - 5:36pm

Everyone knows what you did last summer. In spite of a small victory for privacy last month, Facebook's policies still raise major privacy questions -- and young people may be developing an entirely new conception of privacy online.

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Nancy Scola, 12/01/2008 - 11:44am

History's Lessons for a Wired White House...Tracking the Evolution of Change.gov...Incoming Administration Faces Information Overload...Palin's Unstoppable Online Power...Just How Historic Was Obama's Presidential Run?...American Diplomacy in the Age of Facebook...and more.

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Nancy Scola, 11/17/2008 - 4:34pm

(Crossposted on Personal Democracy Forum) It can take a lot to amaze those of us who study the web's impact on on the world, but the speed and reach of the organizing against California's Proposition 8, passed on the same day Barack Obama was elected president, has been simply astonishing. In a handful of days, a movement called "Join the Impact" has gone from a humble website dreamed up by a 26 year-old Seattleite to a global movement which, as the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller noted, generated protests this weekend in 300 cities in fifty states (and the District of Columbia), and eight countries.

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Nancy Scola, 11/13/2008 - 11:57am

The online arm of President-elect Barack Obama's transition is filling out with some familiar faces; Sure, even the bold-faced names in Obamaland from Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to possible Attorney General Janet Napolitano seems to have a Facebook profile, as the New York Observer's Gillian Reagan reports. But, details the New York Times' Jackie Calmes, applicants for every one of the thousands of available executive-branch jobs must be open to having their online lives thoroughly vetted; So, what is the campaign-turned-transition to do with all those volunteers who powered their victory? Campaign field director Jon Carson told NPR's Mara Liasson that "We've run sort of a giant experiment here in volunteer management, and we want to take a look at the lessons learned from that." But some of those volunteers aren't waiting for instruction; and more.

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Nancy Scola, 11/05/2008 - 1:22pm

The Next Right's Patrick Ruffini warns the GOP that if it concludes that President-Elect Barack Obama earned the title merely by pushing the right levers on the Internet, "they will draw the wrong lessons from this year;" Where does Chris Hughes fit into an Obama administration?, tweets NYU's Jay Rosen. The Facebook founder was Obama's director of social-networking -- a job that's wholly without precedent in the West Wing; Google Hot Trends offers a peek into what people were scouring the Internet for just after the race was called last night at 11pm ET; and a good deal more.

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afine, 09/18/2008 - 9:49am

Another story about the chasm between Facebook the social sandbox and Facebook the faceless corporation makes us wonder about the purpose and future of the site.

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Nancy Scola, 09/16/2008 - 11:29am

The Wall Street Journal's Emily Steel highlights a fascinating example of a seemingly new online tactic we focused on yesterday when it came to DNC's new "Count the Lies" compendium. Let's call it pushback by proxy; "How can graphic designers best support Barack Obama?" That question was the inspiration for a new project that aims to mine the talent of the more artistically-gifted Obama fans among us; Next Friday kicks off the start of the McCain-Obama debates, and Current TV will be trying out a new way of framing the match-ups: overlaying Twitter traffic over the feed; McCain policy advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin tried making the case this morning that McCain's long-time service on the Senate Commerce Committee gives him tech cred. "He did this," said Holtz-Eakin, holding up his BlackBerry. The "John McCain invented the BlackBerry" joke writes itself, but we're not going to make it; and much, much more.

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Joshua Sherman, 08/13/2008 - 10:58am

#1 Digg video is anti-McCain voter-generated content; Facebook (anti-)campaigns for Vice President; C-SPAN gets searchable, linkable, AND embeddable; Convention website showdown; NYTimes Op-Ed on the power of text messaging; McCain's tech policy (lack thereof); Organizing tips for #dontGo

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Nancy Scola, 06/19/2008 - 12:11pm

Barack Obama announces his decision to opt out of public financing in a video sent straight to supporters; McCain launches his first Facebook app: a video tour through the "Straight Talk Express" bus; a new Google maps gallery mashes up political data and geography; Capitol Words offers a daily extraction of Congress's most popular word; and more.

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Nancy Scola, 06/18/2008 - 11:28am

Obama hits the one millionth Facebook supporter mark and we wonder who gets the digital toaster; an effort to Google link McCain to some unfavorable press reports success; the battle between bloggers and the Associated Press continues, with the AP laying out a price scale for excerpts; a new Off the Bus feature makes it trivial to get access to campaign press calls; and more.

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