I covered this back on June 27th, and at that time the group had around 550 members. What a difference a week makes, eh?
Not only that, this group is now the biggest on his website now.
TPM points to a story from USA Today about the group…
In recent days, Obama has criticized the Supreme Court [...]

Some exciting news about making it much harder for HIV to grab ahold of your immune system.
From Wired:
Viruses enter cells and take them over, but to get inside, they need a handhold. HIV pulls itself in by grabbing onto a protein called CCR5, which decorates the surface of T-cells, which are one of the two [...]

Some may see this as a negative, but one benefit to Obama having social networking available for his supporters is it gives people an opportunity to state their opposition. Obama probably won’t change his position, but at least people feel that they have a voice, and can find likeminded people to organize and spread the [...]

That’s what NASA is saying, and where there’s water there could be life…however microscopic it may be:
Whitish, dice-sized chunks, which were dug from the rocky red soil and warmed in the sun, vanished four days after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Phoenix probe dug them up June 15. They confirm what NASA satellites have [...]

One of the “not really a story” stories circulating today is that John McCain has launched his first Facebook application. Yeah, I know, exciting stuff.
But what grabbed me in the story was this little factoid: On Facebook, Barack Obama has 1,000,400 supporters while John McCain has 147,000. This tells me two things: 1) Obama has [...]

So now it’s all about electoral college…finally.
The key questions:

Which states do the candidates comfortably have in their corner?
Which ones are battlegrounds?
Which can they take from the other side?

Chuck Todd provides some insight into where the two candidates stand…

Base Obama: CA, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, MD, MA, NY, RI, VT (153 electoral votes)
Lean Obama: [...]

I just tried out MSNBC’s Spectra and I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised.
The layout is intuitive, colorful and actually sort of fun to use. The above picture may not give you a sense of that because it’s a bit small, but trust me, it’s worth a try. I’ll definitely use it in [...]

A very good article over at The Atlantic explores exactly how Obama has been able to raise tens of millions without having to do much except campaign.
The secret? Embrace the social networking model, give people the tools to bring their friends into the campaign and let them grow the base for you…
When My.BarackObama.com launched, at [...]

I wrote about Raul Castro’s decision to let Cubans own computers and cell phones, so this is more of an add on than anything.

Welcome to the 21st century Cuba! You’ve got a long way to go yet, and let’s hope that happens sooner rather than later.

Darren Garnick of The Boston Herald’s “Working Stiff” blog interviewed me and Alan for a story about “Blogger Burnout.” Unfortunately, only my answers were used, so Alan…if you want to post your answers in a separate post, please do so.
Anyway, here’s my answer about the perils of blogging…
AFRAID OF BURNOUT? Nope.
“Blogging is like anything else [...]

Back in Fall 2006, Joe’s website went down and his campaign blamed the rival Ned Lamont’s campaign…mostly because the netroots were backing Lamont and it was an easy accusation to make against bloggers.
Well, it turns out that not only did Lamont not have anything to do with it, but Lieberman’s people knew the real cause [...]

Already the gaming sensation of the moment, there’s now word that the Wii is being used for more than games of virtual tennis. The Wii remote will soon be helping to defuse bombs.
The military has been working with the hardy Packbot for some time now, using the wheeled robot to sniff out and defuse explosives [...]

…it’s probably because we’re on the front page of Reddit.com in the #1 position. Good news for the traffic, but bad news for site performance.
In fact, I just got off the phone with our hosting service and we’re literally getting about 40 hits a second. Crazy.
In any event, I had to upgrade my database container [...]

Larry Lessig and Joe Trippi announced this Thursday what Change Congress will be.
Here’s more from Wired…
The professor wants legislators to promise to do four things which he says will reduce the influence of money on policymaking: To promise not to accept money from lobbyists and political action committees; support public financing of elections; commit to [...]

Check out this article from Newsweek, circa 1995:
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of [...]

Social media giveth and social media taketh away…
Looks like the former blogger and current McCain aide made a pretty dumb gaffee today by sharing a YouTube video on Twitter, which is basically stream-of-consciousness blogging platform that allows people to share their thoughts, but nothing longer than 155 characters. I’m actually on Twitter as well, and [...]

Seriously, just watch…

From the ice to that jump at the end, this is pretty incredible stuff.
I know one thing, I would want that thing running at me. Yikes!

Here are the stats…
* Contributors: 727,972
* First Time Contributors: 385,101
* Total Contributors – Campaign to Date: 1,069,333
Online Fundraising:
* More than $45 million raised online in February
* More than 90% of online donations were $100 or less
* More than 50% of online donations were $25 or less
* More than 75% of online donors in February were [...]

Amazing…

Here’s more background…
The information reveals a trove of interesting population patterns. By looking at the neighborhoods where the data came from, researchers determined that New Yorkers who engage in global gab tend to be on the high end of the socio-economic scale or struggling to make ends meet. Translation: international business and professional people or [...]

Damn.
He explains why here.

Let’s hope the Change Congress movement can actually gain a foothold.