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Today is so-called "Super Tuesday" in the US. Voters in 24 states are heading to the polls -- including in large population states like New York, California, and Illinois -- to decide who get to face off for the job of US president as the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties. After the votes have been counted tonight, 52% of the Democratic and 41% of the Republican delegates will have been awarded, and it may be that we have a clearer picture of who those nominees are.

During my current trip to the US, I've been following the US presidential primaries - it's hard not to, with the blanket coverage on CNN and in newspapers. Coincidentally while trying to hail a taxi after the Crunchies ceremony, I bumped into a man who is building an Internet version of the primaries. Called OnlinePrimary, it's an experimental project by Jim Edlin to create "a new, Internet-age way to do elections".

Jim Edlin has a long and distinguished history in the IT industry, including being the co-founder and first editor of PC Magazine. While giving my family and I a lift back to our hotel after the Crunchies (the taxis were non-existent that night!), Jim explained to me more about OnlinePrimary.

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.

Highlights this week: Richard MacManus ended 2007 with a review of the top 10 Web Tech stories of the year. Marshall Kirkpatrick produced an awesome toolkit to keep track of Web Tech trends in 2008; he also showed how to fall in love with tagging again and asked some big questions on privacy in the Web age. Josh Catone offered a guide to Online Giving to start the new year and he explored how the Web is affecting the US presidential primaries.

The use of social networking and web-based organizing tools in politics has been a major story over the past year (in fact, we named it as our 6th most important story of 2007). Tonight, when a number of Iowans gather to decide who they think should represent the two major US political parties in the upcoming presidential election, we will begin to see if all that web campaigning paid off.

Web metrics firm Compete released their latest "Candidate FaceTime" metric yesterday, which measures how many hours people are spending across the social networking profiles of US presidential candidates. Not surprisingly, Ron Paul continues to dominate all candidates, while Barack Obama leads the pack among Democrats. The biggest surprise is the rise of Mike Huckabee -- who has also been rising in national polls -- perhaps due to the Chuck Norris bump (what can't that guy do?). Compete, however, points to Meetup as the true secret weapon.