The Business and Media Institute reports that New York Senator Charles Schumer sees blogs as one of the reasons the Democratic Party has been able to reach young voters. In this year’s primaries Democratic turnout has overwhelmed Republican turnout often by ratios of 2:1 or greater. Schumer says young people are reading blogs to find the news – not Newsweek or Time magazine.
“Politics has become more accessible to young people,” Schumer said. “They didn’t really get into TV news the way my generation did. You know, when I was younger, the national news was sort of the national living room. That is not even close to true. Everyone read Time magazine or Newsweek. Hardly anyone does anymore.”The second-term senator credited specifically bloggers and the Internet for early successes in the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. According to U.S. News and World Report, from January 3 (day of the Iowa caucuses) to February 5 (Super Tuesday), 19.1 million Americans cast a ballot in a Democratic primary (or caucused as a Democrat) versus just 13.1 million on the Republican side in all the nominating contests.
“Instead things are more fractured, but the bloggers and the Internet has sort of become the medium of choice,” Schumer said. “And it’s gotten young people involved and excited in politics.”
Time and Newsweek are still considered valuable sources but young people are more likely to first read about news on a blog or social news website. They then go and read what their favorite blogs have to say about a particular story. They might also check respected publications like Time and Newsweek. Schumer also noted that Internet is playing a much bigger role in this year’s elections than in 2004.
“But I think it’s different this time,” Schumer said. “I think the Internet is much deeper and more pervasive. Howard Dean used it – it was a brand new thing, ‘What is this?’ Now it’s part of the working world. Hillary’s raising a lot of money on the Internet too – not as much as Barack, but she still is. But to me, more the motivation of young people ultimately is, this world is a different world and we better get hold of it and I think that’s a great motivation.”
Schumer is right about the huge amounts of money Democratic candidates are raising online. Today’s candidates have managed to use the Internet to get people involved in their campaigns – both in turning out the vote and in raising money. Hillary Clinton raised over $35 million in February and Barack Obama raised over $50 million. Those are unprecented numbers. Ron Paul too discovered how useful the Internet was when had money raising days where he would raise several million in a 24-hour period.
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Nokia 6124
The Nokia 6124 is the latest offering from Nokia, and is available from Vodafone. The phone will be available in all Vodafone markets to Vodafone customers.
“With the Vodafone exclusive Nokia 6124 classic we continue the successful collaboration we started with the exclusive Nokia 6234,” says Jens Schulte-Bockum, Global Director Terminals at Vodafone “We are […]
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Nokia N82 Review – Coming Soon
The wonderful guys at WOMWorld have kindly sent me the Nokia N82 for a 2 week trial. I’m hoping to do 2 reviews of it, mostly concentrating on the 5 Megapixel camera, comparing it with my Nokia N95’s. Of course the usual build quality and general usability issues will also be scrutinized.
My aim is to do a review after each week that I have it, but may find myself posting random pictures and other features at a whim. If you have any requests on any specific feature to cover or want any sort of tests done, please do let me know.
Stay tuned for my first post before the end of the week.
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Paul Tilley, a 40-year-old advertising executive who committed suicide last month may have done so because of insults directed at him by an anonymous blogger, the New York Times reports today.
The keyboard: A potentially dangerous weapon
This raises the stakes considerably from last year’s debate about the risks of anonymous abuse. Back then death threats directed at blogger Kathy Sierra led to calls for a blogging ‘code of conduct’.
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Vodafone restyled by Taieb
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Summary: Stylish theme similar to the Vodafone default skin for Symbian s60 devices.
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Blame it to the human tendency of falling back to maximum convenience with in the reach of hand or the lack of luxuriously big spaces, multifunctional and compact gadgets are gaining popularity with day. And the all new stowaway kitchen concept from Fevzi Karaman is next in the line to become a hot property.
A single look on the kitchen and you can’t even call it a kitchen. On a distant look it looks no better than a green colored absurd dining table kind of furniture, but as you get into unfolding technicalities of Fevzi kitchen, whet meets the eye is simply astonishing.
The plain dining table holds everything that a modular kitchen is supposed to fit in the modern times. Right from cooking surface to microwave to pull out drawers and also a sink together with other kitchen essentials…Fevzy homes everything!
So whenever you are hungry…just unfold your kitchen and get with your culinary skills and once done just keep the things on place and fold it again to fit your kitchen in the smallest corner in your home, without taking much of space!
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Once again it’s that time when Aliph is all set to add another feather to its classy cap, with yet another chic gadget. This time it is the latest version of Aliph’s popular self-titled Bluetooth headset.
As per an announcement they are all set to hit the markets. The novelty in the latest avatar lies in the replacement of the mesh-metal exterior with the all new limited-edition Jawbones.
Designed by Yves Behar the new bling thing comes in three shades including Black, White, and Copper. To add into some fun-filled excitement and drama, they have named each of the design as Dirty Talk, Trash Talk, and Sweet Talk respectively.
So…if the cute things are taking your heart away already, you must hurry up since they are indeed limited edition just like the McLaren F1 limited type, with just 64 of them hitting the shelves. So in case you get your hands on one, you are lucky!
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