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themonkeycage.org - 12/13/2008
The Internet and the Obama campaign
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I’ve just come back from a conference in Harvard on the Internet and politics, with various academics, political operatives and public intellectuals. One of the major topics of conversation, unsurprisingly, was the ways in which the Obama campaign had used the Internet as part of its ...
pewinternet.org - 12/15/2008
The Future of the Internet III
— pewinternet.org — The Future of the Internet III (more) The Future of the Internet III
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blogs.ft.com - 12/11/2008
Covered in internet slime
— blogs.ft.com — I knew that there was something odd going on, when I woke up at 7am on Tuesday... and found that over 200 e-mails had arrived in the seven hours that I had been in bed. It turned out that my article on world government had been “Drudged” - ie ... (more) Covered in internet slime

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Survey: Many would take Internet over sex
cnn.com - 12/16/2008
Survey: Many would take Internet over sex
— cnn.com — More women would give up sex rather than go without Internet access, according to a new survey.... (more) Survey: Many would take Internet over sex
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Matthew Yglesias:  The Future of Organizing

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The Future of Organizing
Matthew Yglesias — Henry Farrell came away from a conference with some insights into how the Obama campaign saw the role of online political organizing: Still, II did have one preconception strongly confirmed - that contrary to much of the media hype, the Obama people saw the Internet as a means to facilitate real world volunteering, rather than an end in itself. As Joe Rospars,1 the campaign’s New Media director, put it, “”There was never anything online that was there for online’s sake.” Chris Hughes, the online organizing coordinator (and previous co-founder of ...

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