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Presidential Candidates And Their Tech Policies

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy? I went off to Google to answer that question. Here’s the searches I did: McCain tech policy Obama tech policy

Politics Online: Obama Has An Edge

Social networking, text messaging, and online video pulled in plenty of interested people looking for more details about the candidates for the US Presidential election in November.

Obama Seeks 'Indefinite' Web Marketer

Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama must be pretty confident he'll get his party's nomination; his campaign recently posted an Internet advertising job opening. Job duration: Indefinite.

McCain Campaign Tastes Plagiarized Recipes

Cindy McCain's kitchen looked a lot like The Food Network's to one eagle-eyed website visitor, who spotted lots of similarities between recipes published on both sites.

SEO and the Presidential Race

With the Presidential primaries well under way, it’s time for a follow-up to my March 2007 post about how the Presidential candidates rate for SEO.

McCain Campaign Stops For MySpace, MTV

Following appearances by Democratic Presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Barack Obama, John McCain will participate in a campus dialogue hosted by MTV and MySpace.

McCain Buys Up Online Ads

We’ve said it time and time again: in the 2008 presidential campaign, the Web will play a major role.  But as new numbers come out concerning Web ad buying, we’re getting a clearer idea of how the candidates have responded to the online world.

Googlers Take A Crack At John McCain

Never mind the PBS crew - at a recent debate starring John McCain, neither Jim Lehrer nor Gwen Ifill served as the moderator.  Instead, Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, filled that role.  And this seems fitting, considering that the event took place at the Googleplex, in front of a crowd of around 700 Googlers.

YouTube Stops John McCain's Singing

A political video featuring John McCain has been removed from YouTube, and MoveOn.org is not happy about it.  You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the group is trying to preserve free speech or let an opponent embarrass himself, but the matter speaks to larger issues in either case.

John McCain Embarrassed On MySpace

Somebody on the Arizona Senator and Presidential candidate's campaign staff has some explaining to do about a change to McCain's profile on MySpace.