Politics

Not one to be left out of all the buzz surrounding the upcoming US presidential election, Amazon has unveiled its Election Heat Map which it will be updating each day to show the best-selling political books by state. The map is separated into blue (liberal) and red (conservative) categories, and it lets you click on Continue Reading →

Political conventions, long the ultimate made-for-TV presentation, this year are coming of age as digital-media events—highlighting the decline of network television coverage of the gatherings. When Republicans convene next week in Tampa, Fla., and Democrats the week after in Charlotte, N.C., major broadcast networks will use the Internet to provide the kind of extensive coverage Continue Reading →

Twitter is getting in on the social analysis game. The micro-blog will publish a daily measurement of Twitter sentiment surrounding the 2012 presidential election called the Twitter Political Index, the company announced Wednesday. The Index works like this: Every day, it scans every tweet mentioning one of the candidates and weighs it against millions of Continue Reading →

Facebook spent a record amount on lobbying expenses — dropping close to $1 million — during the second quarter of 2012 in yet another sign of the social network’s growing focus on Beltway politics. Meanwhile, Google maintained its lobbying march in Washington, having spent $9 million in the first half of the year — almost Continue Reading →

The 2012 campaign is quickly becoming the season of digital partnerships for legacy media outlets. In the latest such mashup, CNN and Facebook announced a partnership aimed at making Facebook the second screen for CNN election coverage. CNN is no stranger when it comes to experiementing with new technology. It’s hard to forget the network’s Continue Reading →

(Content originally published on KellerFay.) Everyone is talking about the massive amount of money that will be spent on advertising during this presidential election.  But a recent article in the New York Times illustrates that advertising alone will not win the campaign, and that organized, person-to-person persuasion remains critically important. Entitled, “Obama Campaign Banks On High-Tech Ground Game to Continue Reading →

From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program. Read the full story at The New York Times Continue Reading →

The House overwhelmingly approved a measure Tuesday designed to make it easier for growing companies to attract investors and comply with securities laws. The bipartisan measure, strongly backed by both parties and the White House, passed 380 to 41. Read the full story at The Washington Post Read more Top Stories   Continue Reading →

President Obama’s online efforts during his 2008 bid for the White House revolutionized digital campaigns — and if Nielsen’s latest numbers are any indication, his team is working hard for a repeat in 2012. Read the full story at Mashable   See more Top Stories Continue Reading →

It’s no secret that technology at the White House has improved since President Obama took office in 2009. But how bad was it before? It appears the first ever Blackberry having President and his staff had their work cut out for them.  Read the whole story at Computerworld Continue Reading →