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.

Can bottom-up social networking help solve America's blood shortages?

TechCrunch announces the winners of its primaries; Barack Obama has pulled in $4 million over the weekend; video of Obama's SC speech beats out Britney in popularity; a new site, the Washington Independent, offers a new web-based model of journalism; a sharp critique of Republican bloggers; MyDD holds a bake sale; Shays and Bush continue the Judas model of governance; a blogger on John Edwards' site goes after Trippi; Mike Huckabee appears on GodTube; a new attack ad from McCain continues the flip-flop theme; and Ron Paul offers a typically off-kilter message to his supporters.

OK, so I've now heard from a bunch of friends, including several wiser and cooler heads with many years of experience in the trenches, and they've convinced me that I overstated things in my previous post attacking TechCrunch.

The announcement last Thursday by the TechCrunch blog that it is organizing a "Tech President" online primary and "Tech President Endorsement" is a violation of our copyright and an abuse of our name and reputation. We've asked them to stop. So far, they haven't even bothered to reply. So it's time to make this public.

The Giuliani Quote Generator Facebook app automates absurdist phrases; Off The Bus speaks truth to the polls, launches its new Polling Project; Ask Your Lawmaker Diggifies the public's questions to the candidates; is Karl Rove a better pundit than Markos Moulitsas?; A clip from the Joe Scarborough show is another example of journalists focusing on anything but the issues; VetVoice, a site devoted to veterans' issues in the campaign, launches with a number of candidate posts on the way; analyzing and voting on campaign logos; a new Obama video takes health care head-on; and TechCrunch interviews John Edwards.