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As part of MTV's coverage of the 2008 presidential elections in the US, the media network assembled a "street team" of 51 amateur journalists -- one in each state and

The OpenID Foundation has announced nominations and upcoming elections for six open community board seats. This year marks the Foundation's second election; last year, Snorri Giorgetti, Nat Sakimura, Chris Messina,

There are a lot of websites where you can share information and discussion about the forthcoming US Presidential election - but ¡México Decide! may be the most interesting one I've

The New York Times ran two stories today affirming the usefulness of citizen journalists and microjournalism tools to the reporting of major news stories. In October we reported that citizen

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/political_opinion/Google_the_Vote_How_Google_is_Changing_the_American_Political_Landscape'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; It's no secret that Google has influence. Being the most heavily used search engine, they in a very real sense

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

According to a report today from the BBC, Iranians are able to text message one another for the first time since the day before the presidential elections. SMS service, which

A new forecast from ZenithOptimedia predicts that the ad spending will jump 6.7% globally to $486 billion. For online ad spending, the news is especially good. Zenith expects Internet ad

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

MySpace today announced that it will work together with the Commission for Presidential Debates (CPD) to broadcast the upcoming presidential debates in the U.S. live on the social networking site.