Barbera responds: College Republicans investing in success, College Democrats should try grown-up politics, CR Nation. 

On Aug. 27 we deployed a team of 50 full-time field representatives who are on college campuses around the country every day recruiting new members for the College Republicans and channeling those recruits into volunteer efforts. In the few weeks the team has been in the field, they have already recruited 46,875 new members. The field representative for the state of New Mexico has recruited 969 new members this month, including 297 at UNM alone.

Study: Omitting cell phone users may affect polls, Newsweek.

The finding, in a report this week by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, may increase pressure on polling organizations to include people who use only cell phones in their surveys. While many major polls including The Associated Press-GfK Poll already interview cell phone users, some do not, largely because doing so is more expensive.

A Qik Hit, Condé Nast Portfolio.

Qik offers an alluring new twist to Internet users increasingly comfortable with sharing their lives online: the ability to stream cell-phone video to the Web in real time.

Earlier this month, Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, demonstrated Qik in a speech about how his government is embracing technology. And Rep. John Culbertson, a Texas Republican, has used the service to broadcast from the U.S. Capitol. (The Secret Service wouldn't let him broadcast a meeting with President Bush live from the Oval Office, however)

The Democrats Lose: Comparing the Convention Web Site, Conversation Marketing.

Not that I have anything against John McCain except that I'll never vote for him. But I'm a pretty staunch Democrat, and it'd be nice to blame my own party for the world's problems for a change.

 

Fast forward. It's 2008. The Democratic National Convention is going on now, and the Republicans start theirs in a week or so. So I decided to compare their respective convention sites based on simple stuff.

I may just have to change my party affiliation.