Tag: CAMPAIGN

What's the number one problem plaguing today's youth? Drugs? Please. Sexting? Psh. Justin Bieber? Close, but no. It's paper, you guys. In today's e-mail and SMS-dominated age, kids have simply lost touch with the core American values of good penmanship and environmental recklessness. And that's why the altruists at the Domtar paper company have taken it upon themselves to launch a new awareness ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. We're going to ...

Nowadays, it's pretty common to see politicians pop up all over our Facebook and Twitter feeds. But, according to CNN, we may soon be able to know exactly where our national representatives are at all times, thanks to a growing number of politicians who have added Foursquare to their social networking toolboxes. 27-year-old Patrick Kennedy is currently running for Congress as a Democrat from ...

Hoping to be selected as test sites for Google's upcoming high-speed fiber network, many cities have launched weird viral campaigns. According to an Associated Press report, Google set the nomination deadline for March 26th, and will announce the winners by the end of the year. Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, told the AP that Google wants ...

It started out as the cause of a small group of disgruntled nerds. But now, the push to rid the world of out-of-date versions of Internet Explorer has blossomed into a full-blown campaign. According to CNN, a new site called 'IE 6 No More,' along with activity on sites like Twitter and Digg, has helped bring the idea to the masses. Developers of the site claim that Internet Explorer 6, which ...

With November 4th rapidly approaching, the McCain-Palin campaign has ratcheted up the number of automated phone calls going out to potential voters. According to Shaun Dakin, a Virginian "anti-robocall activist," the McCain campaign is currently issuing 12 automated telephone campaigns, while the Obama camp is only conducting four. The Republican candidate's phone-intensive politicking is, no ...

The Obama campaign has been reaching out to younger voters during the lead-up to Super Tuesday by telling them to text "HOPE to 62262" to learn more about how to participate in caucuses. The traditional way to get the message out -- especially in caucus states, where every person who shows up at a caucus site can have much greater impact than someone voting in a primary -- is through targeted ...

This election cycle is becoming the year politics go super-digital. Take a quick look at any of the candidates' websites -- each one reveals a host of buttons linking to the various candidates' digital outposts on various social Web services. Each site has a blog, a MySpace page, and a YouTube channel. Each one also provides tools to help supporters organize. This is not just the result ...