Month: March 2009

Underfunded Candidates and the Internet

How is the internet helping “underfunded” candidates?  In a lot of ways, it turns out.  This LA Times article explains. “Internet technology has created campaign opportunities for underfunded candidates that didn’t exist before,” said Steven Afriat, a veteran Los Angeles political consultant who is not involved in any of Tuesday’s municipal contests. But technology cannot […]

White House Drops YouTube

YouTube won’t be providing White House videos any longer due to privacy concerns, according to this C|Net report. The focus of the criticism was on the use of long-term tracking cookies by the Google-owned video-sharing site. When the new White House site first went live in January, every visitor to the president’s blog would be […]