Can technology bring buzz to conventions?, Politico.

The GOP National Convention will be using Microsoft's Surface, a desktop touchscreen interactive program with information about the events for the visitors that will be available on monitors located around the convention hall.

"This is going to be the most tech-savvy convention in GOP history," GOP National Convention spokeswoman Yohana De La Torre said.

The GOP also will have up to six live video streams of different views of the convention simultaneously and will make them available at its Web site.

Max Everett, chief information officer of the Republican National Convention, said the main goal is to let people at home feel like they are at the convention.

Flickring here, twittering there , the Economist.

Peter Daou, Hillary Clinton’s internet director, says that YouTube, even more than Facebook or MySpace, has had a huge impact on the campaign. Will.i.am’s ode to Mr Obama, “Yes we can”, has had nearly 9m views since it was uploaded six months ago; some 1.9m have watched the McCain Girls’“Raining McCain” over the past four months. Thousands of clips created by ordinary people have been uploaded, to be shared in blogs and often covered by traditional media too.

The "Colbert Bump" is real—at least on one side of the aisle, ars technica.

The picture is not nearly as rosy for Republicans. Far fewer have appeared on the "Better Know a District" segment, making analysis more difficult, but none of the ones that did showed any improvement in fundraising post-Colbert. In fact, the Republicans that did appear had previously been doing quite well, only to slump following their appearance. Dr Fowler suggests three possible reasons for this effect: that the Colbert Report selects the Republicans because they've been doing well; that the only Republicans who accept the invitation are ones that have been doing well; or that a peculiar rift in the space-time continuum means that Republicans see their Colbert Bump in the weeks preceding their show.