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...campaigns, meanwhile, also learned to use new media to keep the news monster appeased. Web ads were the Molotov cocktails of campaign 2008: quick, cheap and explosive--the more outrageous, the more likely to get embedded on blogs and played for free on the news. One zany McCain ad, made around Obama's summer trip to Europe, likened Obama to actor (and pop star in Germany) David Hasselhoff. Attention-getting? Definitely. Comprehensible? Does it matter...
...decades ago, "the East and the West." Culturally and politically, the West Side closely resembles its Kentucky neighbors and is dotted with working-class Catholic towns where people still place one another by asking which parochial high school they attended. Across town is the East Side, an affluent web of hillside communities that house executives from Macy's, Procter & Gamble and the seven other FORTUNE 500 companies that are based in Cincinnati...
...Fortunately, the current explosion of Web 2.0 solutions appears perfectly poised to democratize further the voting process. Ideally, the names and registration status of all voters could be made publicly available on the state website. Each person would be able to identify his or her own voting status directly and ensure that the proper forms have been filed and any holds released. Anybody who has been wrongfully removed from the rolls will be able to report it, easing the strain on voting officials and shortening the lines on Election...
...voter purges in this election were politically motivated will probably not be revealed for some time to come. Regardless, an independent, transparent system is necessary to ensure the functioning of a stable democracy. Immediately, HAVA legislation can be extended to standardize this process. In the long run, Web 2.0 capabilities should be integrated into the registration system to increase transparency of and access to information that is so vital for American voters...
Nesson, who could not be reached for comment because he has been traveling, has written on his Web site that the recording industry organization is trying to intimidate others through its actions against Tenenbaum...