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Dailymotion to deliver political programming from DNC in Denver

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Video website Dailymotion is taking an active role in covering the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Each evening, Dailymotion is programming one half hour of political content by showcasing a selection of entertaining and enlightening political videos directly from the convention.
 
Dailymotion’s convention programming includes videos from partners GOOD, Remix America, JibJab and Dailymotion’s Motionmaker program for creative contributors. Tomorrow, August 26th, Dailymotion and partners Barely Political and 23/6 will showcase the best in political comedy.
 

Bloggers to lifecast via Zannel from Democratic National Convention

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For the first time ever, grassroots bloggers will be broadcasting video, pictures and text updates straight from the floor of the Democratic National Convention using their mobile phones and Zannel, the instant media network that used for lifecasting, micro-blogging, and as a mobile social network.

The Democratic National Convention has accredited a select number of state-based bloggers with floor access during the entire convention. Fourteen of these bloggers, representing every region of the US, are contributing to Zannel’s PoliticsBlue community channel (or text DEM to 58888 to view on mobile) from the convention through Election Day. By leveraging Zannel’s mobile platform, they will be able to instantly share their convention coverage with their blog’s readers, the Zannel community, and to the blogging and social networks to which Zannel syndicates content.

Rock The Vote, AT&T, FunMobility to mobilize youth vote, I doubt

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Rock The Vote, AT&T and FunMobility announced the launch of downloadable mobile content to help encourage young people to leverage their voting power in the political process. Rock The Vote’s mobile campaign in partnership with AT&T, brings together popular music, artists and mobile technologies to engage today’s youth with the political process.

FunMobility has created a robust catalog of made-for-mobile downloadable wallpaper, branded with the Rock The Vote logo, for mobile users to demonstrate their support in the upcoming election.
Exclusive Rock The Vote mobile election campaign content can be downloaded from the FunMobility’s FunScreenz application, on your AT&T phone within AT&T MEdia Mall or at rockthevote.funmo.com. 

FunMobility’s direct-to-consumer website, FunMo.com, will power the Rock The Vote mobile storefront.  FunMo.com enables users to create graphics and animations to personalize their phones, connect with others within the mobile community, share mobile photos, and browse thousands of original wallpapers and ringtones.

I don’t know. I highly doubt if a mobile campaign on political awareness would be effective especially to the youth. Rock The Vote, AT&T and FunMobility should be more creative than this. Also, this campaign would cost you money on some mobile rates and make whoever some cash.

Yahoo, Politico to host public forums

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Yahoo! and Politico will team up with The Denver Post and St. Paul Pioneer Press to hold a series of public forums during the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Colorado and Republican National Convention in Minnesota. The series will include eight morning breakfast panels, to be held Aug. 25-28 in Denver and Sept. 1-4 in St. Paul, and will feature top leaders from politics, entertainment and the media. Open to the public and top opinion-makers attending the conventions, these breakfast forums will set the tone for each day of the convention. The forums will also be available online at Politico.com and Yahoo! News, providing the entire nation with an insider’s view of what’s happening each day at the convention.

Former presidential candidate Ross Perot launches website on U.S. economic crisis

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Businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has launched PerotCharts.com, a public information website that contains objective, information about the current economic crisis in America.

Perot said that the site is being launched as an alert and appeal for American citizens to inform themselves about federal government spending.

PerotCharts.com consists of three major components: a video featuring Ross Perot discussing the purpose of the website, a blog where new charts and other information are posted daily for study and comment, and a narrated chart presentation explaining the economic problems the country faces.

The website stressed that it is not affiliated with any political party or candidate. If not, then what is the motive then? We can only wonder.