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 Send to email | Feds Avoid Making Terrible Decision, Allow Political Blogs To Stay Unregulated in General |  By Silicon
el 18-Aug-2008 |  Should partisan political blogs be treated as political organizations and regulated by campaign finance laws? Of course they shouldn't!
Thankfully, the Federal Election Commission agrees with us. Mediapost reports that the FEC dismissed a complaint by a Clinton supporter who alleged a pro-Obama blog, Iowa True Blue, was actually "a direct arm" of the Obama campaign.
The FEC ruled that it doesn't matter if Iowa True Blue was, in fact, collaborating with the Obama campaign: Its costs don't have to be disclosed as a campaign contribution. "Political blogging is exactly the type of Internet activity that the Commission exempted from the definition of 'contribution' and 'expenditure,'" the FEC said.
In 2006, the FEC said online media operations are exempt from campaign finance laws unless they are directly owned by a candidate, party or committee. In 2007, the FEC ruled in favor of the liberal blog DailyKos after a similar complaint, ruling then that "activity on the DailyKos website does not constitute a contribution or expenditure that would trigger political committee status."
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| Take Your Blog Mobile and Earn More with FeedM8 | | FeedM8 (that's Feed Mate) is a new service powered by Wattpad, the mobile content delivery network that lets you get RSS feeds on your mobile phone. The service works on two fronts: content publishers can gain a mobile audience, and readers can stay caught up with their favorite blogs. Only those blogs which have been registered for FeedM8 will be available through this service, and in the same way the Twitter API has enabled an ecosystem for a lot of companies to have some semblance of mobile integration, FeedM8 is putting forth a cat [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Mar-2008 by annis in General
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| How Many Blogs Do You Write On? How Many Posts Per Day? | | @SeanBannister asks “how many blogs do you write for and how many blog posts a day you make?”
These days I only write actively on two blogs - ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. At one point I was writing each week on around 25 blogs - but a lot of them were pretty much just watching [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in Reader Questions
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| The Political Machine returns for '08 election |  Filed under: PC, Strategy
Stardock's political strategy game returns for this year's election with The Political Machine 2008. The full retail product puts players in charge of a national campaign for President of [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Mar-2008 by Alexander Sliwinski in political-machinestardockthe-political-machine
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| Types of Blogs - Can we Categorize Them? | | I just received the following question about categorizing blogs from Ann Handley (from MarketingProfs) that I thought would make a good discussion starter.
“A few weeks ago, Chris Brogan (writing on Shannon Paul’s blog) talked about the importance of being consistent on your blog.
Some blogs, like my personal blog Annarchy are “craft blogs,” Chris wrote. While [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Oct-2008 by Darren Rowse in Reader QuestionsAnn HandleyBrian Soliscategorize blogschris broganMarketingProfstypes of blogs
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| The Wii Enters Its Terrible Twos Today [Nintendo] | | Can you believe it's already been two whole years since Nintendo launched the Wii in North America? What heady times! We were still reeling from the PlayStation 3 launch two days prior, still making off-color Wii puns, confident that we'd be able to stroll into a Best Buy, Target o [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Nov-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Nintendo Anniversary News only in the u.s. Original Wii
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