Presidential Watch 2008 has launched a set of tools which analyzes the important trends of the campaigns, the opinions of citizens and the continuously evolving standings of the candidates taking part in the race. One of its tools features a Map of the Political Blogosphere, highlighting the 292 influential sites and opinion hubs making the online debate on the presidential race. The map shows the different political communities represented by: Progressive, Independent, Conservative and Mass Media.
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With less than a year to go before election day, the battlefield is already crowded with troops. The Republican and Democrat primaries have brought all supporters and cybersupporters in the debate. Whereas a few months ago American candidates were sending envoys to France to spot the presidential netcampaign’s best practices, they are now the ones steering the wheel, finding new ways to campaign online, pushing further the borders of traditional politics.
The netcampaign will take place in every corner of the Internet, from the now ancient e-mails and newsgroups to the new web 2.0 community sites and apps such as Twitter or Digg. It will visit both the most crowded spaces such as YouTube, MySpace or Facebook and the most confidential and secluded - what about some political debating in Lake Ontario’s fly fishing newsgroups?
And of course it will still happen within the blogosphere, on thousands of opinion outlets held by supporters, journalists, candidates, writers or citizens. Continuously or from time to time, they will carry, consider or mix the impressive flow of texts, images and sounds published daily by the mass media and, more and more, by their peers.
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This maybe of interest as the basis for a potential web project: Barack Obama Campaign Trail Twitter Map.
It's based on a simple mashup that uses a yahoo pipe to attempt to geocode location mentioning tweets in an individual's twitter feed.
The above example applies the hack to Barack Obama's twitter feed.
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