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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.

Originally posted on August 13, 2008 @ 10:19 am

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.

Originally posted on August 12, 2008 @ 11:37 pm

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.

Originally posted on June 16, 2008 @ 6:06 am

Social news site WeOpEd.com raises level of online political debate

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oped.pngThe heating of the political scene is just right for the coming of Weoped.com, an online community for political opinions and current events that utilizes online social networking to bring members together around the issues and events that concern them. We Op-Ed is dedicated to growing a diverse community where members can voice their opinions, engage in lively debate, and find an alternative resource for political news and current events.

We Op-Ed welcomes anyone who wants to voice their opinions, to find alternative viewpoints on current events, and to meet others who share similar interests and concerns about the world around them. It’s democracy at its best– even online.

Originally posted on June 2, 2008 @ 5:41 am

Blogged.com endorses Obama blogs

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Blogged.com is dipping into politics, announcing today a list of the top 10 blogs for the Democratic presidential candidates. After evaluating the list, coupled with “thorough analysis,” Blogged.com concluded that the top Obama blogs were found to be of higher quality than the top Clinton blogs. The basis: content quality, frequency of updates, site design, and writing style. There is no margin of error here because this is not a survey, but there is definitely personal biases (like me having a bias on Obama).

Originally posted on May 1, 2008 @ 1:50 pm