OpenID has had a lot of big supporters, but this week President Elect Barack Obama's Change.gov added the ability for users to log in using an OpenID account and to Continue reading »

The Creative Commons Foundation announced today that award winning TV and radio news show Democracy Now! will now be distributed under a CC license. Democracy Now! is broadcast daily on Continue reading »

After it had been unavailable in Germany for more than two days, the Wikipedia's German portal is finally back online. The local German version of the Wikipedia had become unavailable Continue reading »

During the election season, Barack Obama's campaign got a lot of kudos for its use of social media tools. As we noted in our post entitled Obama's Social Media Advantage, Continue reading »

Much has been said about the masterful use of social media by the Obama campaign. The people working for the President-Elect were by far the more active - and the Continue reading »

Four years ago, I was among many people who were blown away by a speech that Barack Obama made at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Then in November 2004, exactly Continue reading »

The official Google blog just posted some interesting data about hot search trends early in election day and while there are a lot of important questions being asked by millions Continue reading »

Everything you need to find voter information, report on your experience, and track election results using social media and the web. Over the past few weeks, we've heard of several Continue reading »

Today, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of David Kernell, the 20-year old son of a Tennessee state representative, on allegations of hacking vice-presidential-candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail Continue reading »

Just in time for the first day of the Democratic Convention in the U.S., Kevin Rose today announced a new feature on Digg: Digg Dialogg. The idea here is to Continue reading »