McCain's paid search terms:

• john mccain
• mccain
• sarah palin
• sarah palin biography
• palin
• mccain for president
• mcain
• johnmccain.com
• mccain.com
• mccain campaign
• mc cain
• john mccain.com
• mccain palin
• cindy mccain
• john mc cain
• sara palin
• mccain vp
• mccain campaign website
• sarah palin vice president
• price of oil per barrel today
• cindy mccain biography
• john mccain biography
• palin for vp
• john mccain for president
• mccain running mate
• mccains running mate
• obama
• johnmccain!fecom
• sarah palin bio
• sarah palin images
• contact john mccain
• johnmccain.com win
• sarah palin alaska
• mccain's running mate
• gov. sarah palin
• sarah palin pictures
• sara palin vice president
• mccain john
• john rich
• john mcain
• current price of a barrel of crude oil
• john mcclain
• sarah palin t shirts
• cindy mccain bio
• john mccain poster duty honor country
• joe biden
• mccain/palin
• mccain official website
• veterans for mccain
• email sarah palin
• www.johnmccain.com
• mccain economic plan
• john mccain campaign
• "cindy mccain"
• mccaine
• sarah palin vogue
• john mccain on education
• johnmcain
• presidential election campaign jobs in ny city
• mccain president
• john mccain website
• reasons of why pick mccain for president
• john mccain ideology
• mccains opinion on energy
• mccain children
• mccain on energy
• palin history
• obama campaign
• www.mccain for president.com
• john mccain health care policy
• sarah palin and bristol palin photos
• "senator john mccain vietnam war hero"
• alaska governor sarah palin
• cost of iraq war 10 billion
• john rich "raising mccain"
• republican party hopkins county texas
• campaign issues
• register to vote republican
• johnmccaine.com
• mccain & obama similar on poverty issues
• mccain and obama views on capital gains
• mccain headquaters in mower county mn
• who's ahead in the election
• how much does a barrel of oil cost
• macain
• joe biden picture
• sara palin picture
• what is the reason for high gas prices
• minnesota replulican party office
• john mccain volunteer work
• official mccain website
• mccain office address in des moines ia
• oil price per barrel
• joe biden beliefs
• mccain republican headquarters indiana
• obama for president
• contribute to john mccain
• iraq war costs
• mccaine campaign
• mccain for president.com
• mccain oregon coos
• kimberly mauck mccain
• va.johnmccain.com
• mrs john mccain
• mccain palin campaign
• jhon mccain
• current price of oil
• how do i send an email to palin
• www.realistate laws
• obama.com
• how to contact john mccain
• mccain's vp
• palin sarah
• johnmccain.org
• sara palin pictures
• the 2008 election leading results
• john mccain and sarah palin at john knox village
• republican campaign buttons
• mccane for president
• raising macaine
• www.palin.com
• www.aclj.org
• sarah palin t-shirts/purses
• mccain campaign email
• gov. palin
• john mccain t-shirt
• mccain-palin08
• gop website
• mccain photo
• mccaine.com
• jolhn mccain.com
• palen
• when will gas prices go down
• free mccain buttons
• raising mccain lyrics
• against global warming
• elect john mccain
• vets for mccain
• john mccain issues
• mccain campaign headquarters
• john mccain wiki
• e-mail john mccain
• photo's of vietnam protesters
• mccain stickers
• mccain's policies on war
• mccain's speech on energy
• mccain-palin stickers
• www.drudge.com

Obama's paid search terms:

• barack obama
• obama
• barak obama
• obama.com
• barack obama website
• obama for president
• obama biden
• barrack obama
• obama birth certificate
• obama campaign
• obama vp
• www.barackobama.com
• obama website
• obama vice president
• obama running mate
• barackobama.com
• joe biden
• barack obama campaign
• barack obama.com
• barackobama
• obama acceptance speech
• official obama website
• obama campaign headquarters
• barach obama
• obama.com issues
• obama/biden
• obama speech
• barack obama birth certificate
• obama home page
• senator obama
• borack obama
• barack obama biography
• www.barack obama.com
• barakobama.com
• obama biden 08
• www.barakobama.com
• brock oboma
• barack obama official site
• barack obama website official
• obama .com
• barack obama for president
• barack obama web site
• obama.org
• oboma
• barakobama
• barack obama.com'
• obama 08
• obama t shirt
• obama platform
• biden
• +be the first to know barack obama's vice president
• obama biden website
• obama bumper stickers
• obama homepage
• obama's speech
• barack obama 08
• www.obama.com
• obama tax plan
• obama official webpage
• where was barack obama born?
• barack obama official website
• michelle obama's speech
• official barack obama website
• vice president for obama
• barrack obama accomplishments
• "obama"
• michelle obama
• barack obama store
• when is barack obama speaking at the convention in denver?
• senator joseph biden
• barack obama experiences
• barack obama's dnc 2008 speech
• barrack oboma
• obama free pictures
• volunteers for obama
• obama websites
• barack obama volunteers
• where was obama born and where raised/?
• obama acorn
• obama president
• obama schedule
• obama running mate text
• maryland democratic party headquarters in annapolis
• www.barocoboma.com
• barrack for president
• obama web site
• barak obama for president
• obama campaign volunteers
• email barack obama
• obamas speech
• where are the offices of obama in milwaukee
• obama headquarters tampa florida
• obama speech online
• how to get on barack obama's text list
• barrack obama dnc speech
• obama campaign page
• obama democratic convention speech
• obama tampa fl.
• obama's schedule
• barack obama major event
• list of views obama stands for
• why is barack obama running for president of the united states
• baqrrack obama speach
• obama resume
• obama websit
• obama-biden bumper stickers
• obama acceptace speech
• obamas vice president pick
• obama!fecom
• speech of barack
• obama campaign web page
• obama campain for persident web site
• o'bama tee shirt
• obama's views
• obama campaign mail address
• dnc
• obama's official website
• montana barack obama headquarters
• obama's experience
• obama picks vp
• www.obama.org
• obama vp choice
• barack obama fan club
• obama campaign headquarters pennsylvania
• barackobama.co m
• obama campaign commercials
• how to get signed up for obama's vp text
• biden trivia
• barack obama's acceptance speech
• barock
• oboma website
• when did barak obama com to iowa
• biden acceptance speech
• brack obama 2008 website
• barack obama.org
• obama taxes
• volunteering for obama
• vp pick obama
• barack obama campaign lexington kentucky
• obama apparel
• obama's democratic convention speech
• obama-biden
• barack.obama
• barackobama.com live
• obama campaign jobs
• who did barack obama choose to be his vice president
• barack obama text message
• www.brauck obama
• obama's website
• barack obama's running mate
• who is obama's vice president
• new orleans barack obama headquarters
• info on borock obama
• obama for america
• barack obama ads
• obama 08 official website
• ask barrock obama a question
• barac obama website
• barack obama office in richmond virginia
• obama birth certificate33
• obama campaign contributions
• obama's vp pick
• barackobama'
• obama plans
• barckobama
• obama 's main website
• pics of barack obama
• www.barama.com
• obama email address
• barak obama's site
• barack obama campaign contribution
• barack obama official campaign website
• time for obama rally in springfield 8/23
• "where was obama born?"
• obama at concord
• obama/biden gear
• barck obama
• obama as a muslim
• obama 2008-volunteer
• obama contacts
• barac obama campaign button
• barack obama campaign offices
• baracks vice prez
• obama is our president
• obama sign up for text message veep
• jobs obama working for florida campaign
• what do barack obama and john mccain both agree on education
• joe biden veep
• obama in san antonio
• obamacandidate
• obama site
• democratic headquarters in denver co 999 bannock
• obama start in politics
• obama 2008
• obama for president official site
• barackobama!fecom
• what is barack obama's email
• obama's promises
• obama text message vice president
• barak obama website
• free vote for obama lawn sign
• 0bama.com
• denver convention contest
• obahma
• obama speech berlin
• obama text alert
• barak obama 2008
• obama for america.org
• obama schedule sept 2008
• obama vp pick
• vp
• if obama becomes president what are the changes he will do? to help this country
• joe biden college degree
• nbc.com michelle obama speech
• obama beliefs
• obama camgpain woodland hills ca
• barack obama's official website
• obaama offical site
• obak obama

Come on: Images of Obama's house are all over the Web. There are aerial views of the home on Google and Microsoft's online maps, as well as shots uploaded to Flickr.

The small wealthy community or North Oaks, Minnesota was able to block Google's Street View cars from entering their neighborhood, but that's probably not what happened in Obama's. Despite what you've heard Hyde Park, Obama's academic enclave and home of the University of Chicago isn't quite entirely a South Chicago colony for the elite. At least, not according to the conservative Weekly Standard:

It is the most racially integrated neighborhood in the nation's most racially segregated city. On three sides it is closed in by some of the most hellish slums in the country, miles of littered streets, acres of abandoned lots, block after block of shuttered storefronts and empty apartment buildings left over from the 19th century.

Shots of Obama's house:

I have seen a lot of commentary on why John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a cynical and transparent ploy to bring disaffected women who supported Hillary Clinton to his cause.

But I don’t think John McCain and the people around him are that stupid.

The McCain campaign plans on making an assault on Barack Obama’s strength as a change agent. And challenge, what the McCain campaign will describe as, Obama’s weak or non-existent attacks on corruption within the Democratic Party and other institutions throughout his career.

To make this assault, McCain picked in Palin someone who has taken on the corruption in the GOP in Alaska, turned against her own party’s establishment, and fought for reform.

Palin could thrive and strongly help McCain make his case, or she could crumble and damage his candidacy. My first impression is that she is not going to crumble.

She isn’t Dan Quayle, and besides, Dan Quayle was elected vice president.

Don’t LOL. Take the McCain/Palin ticket seriously.

(Photo of Joe Trippi by Wake Up Wal-mart, Sarah Palin by AP/Stephan Savoia)

I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.

It's a brilliant riposte to McCain's tax-cuts-for-everyone strategy. And it's delightfully cynical. Since 90 percent of all startups fail, they don't generate any capital gains worth taxing. For those companies which do manage to go public, it means more money for the entrepreneurs, and less for public shareholders, who will still have to pay taxes if they buy and sell company shares at a profit. It's a pro-Jerry Yang, anti-Carl Icahn move. Valley entrepreneurs, already predisposed to like Obama for reasons they can't articulate, can now safely back him without getting in trouble with board members.

The whispers I've heard are that the most likely candidate is Mitch Kapor — the founder of Lotus, and the man who suggested the position to Obama in the first place. Technology Review interviewed Kapor about the position. He all but nominated himself for the job — and then backed away artfully:

TR: So who's on your shortlist?

I'm a million miles away from whatever group of people will actually pick the CTO. I would like it to be someone who has some startup DNA in him or her, but who's realistic about getting things done.

TR: One has to ask: do you want to be CTO?

I'm interested in helping in some way, but the time to think about specifics is post-election.

(Photo by David Lauridsen/Technology Review)

I've no plans to vote for McCain, but I'm all too aware that if the numbers were the other way around, I could collect a couple thousand bucks this afternoon in MSM assignments on Barack's "YouTube victory" and how it changes politics forever. As is, I'm reduced to pitching The Weekly Standard.

And yet that's what Obama's campaign ended up doing. The plan was to send it out Saturday morning, not in the middle of the night — a time chosen to make things difficult for reporters with advance deadlines. But the campaign's hand, it seems, was forced by intrepid reporters who smoked out Biden by process of elimination. No worries, Chris. The scheme succeeded in its real aim — getting millions of cell-phone numbers to call and text in the runup to Election Day.

In recent days, [McCain's campaign] has bought search ads tied to key terms such as "U.S. economy" and "housing crisis," which take visitors to Web sites outlining Sen. McCain's plan on those issues.

Meanwhile, the Obama camp largely has yet to advertise around these terms, missing a key opportunity, according to experts, to communicate his message to undecided voters.

"The big downfall is that Obama's not reaching the undecided voters," says Janel Landis, senior director of search development and strategy at SendTec, a search-marketing firm that has been tracking the candidates' techniques since June. "He's not bidding on issues or his competitor's name."

Nth Power has invested $420 million in 35 companies in the past decade. Most optimize existing energy resources, rather than trying to create alternative power sources. But today, Nth Power only has a piece of one public company that hasn't gone transformers-up: Comverge, which builds load control and advanced metering systems. Floyd's speech envisioned a future of clean, efficient energy. Energy delivered by hungry startups. Startups funded by Nth Power. And by President Obama's administration.

Good evening! Ever since I graduated college, I've worked in one way or another on renewable energy, trying to find cleaner, cheaper ways to power everything from our cars to our homes to our entire economy. I've worn a tool belt, put on rattlesnake guards, gotten my hands dirty, while I literally helped build some of the very first wind farms in the country. And now my partners and I at Nth power work with energy entrepreneurs, helping to bring their ideas to market.

I graduated college 32 years ago when the entire nation was focused on "the energy crisis." Three decades have passed, and where are we now? The costs of filling up our tanks or cooling our homes are going through the roof. Our climate is warming. And our reliance on foreign oil has never been greater. Here we are again back in yet another energy crisis.

I can tell you that there are thousands of entrepreneurs, from Portland, Oregon to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with new solutions. Investors are lining up to back them. What's missing is leadership from Washington. We can't afford another 30 years of partisanship and inaction. We need new thinking and new leadership. We need Barack Obama as president of the United States.

What's at stake is not just our national security. Not just the future of our planet. What's at stake is whether or not the United States will lead the creation of an industry of historic proportions that will create millions of new, high-paying jobs.

Let me put it this way. Green technology is where the computer industry was in 1984, the year the Macintosh computer was introduced. Think about how far we've come since then. That's how far-reaching and how transformational green technology will be. Thousands of new companies. Millions of new jobs. In fact, investments in wind and solar technologies have already created 2.4 million jobs.

That's the good news. The bad news is that less than 10 percent of them are here in the United States. That's because other countries have smart, stable, forward-looking energy policies. So American companies that are working on wind, solar and the next generation of biofuels are selling, and now manufacturing, their products in places like Germany, Spain and China. That's lost jobs here at home. And the loss of one of the biggest economic opportunities to ever come our way.

It's time for a change. Barack Obama has a comprehensive energy plan that will get us off of foreign oil, stop global warming, and create millions of new jobs in the United States. I've read it, and you should read it too at www.barackobama.com. And what you will see is that Barack Obama is not proposing the same old, tired answers. He's offering the change we so urgently need.

He will cut taxes for families who buy fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and make sure that those cars are being built by American autoworkers. He will make an unprecedented investment in green technologies, and that will create 5 million new jobs over the next decade.

I know, to some, it may sound a little pie-in-the-sky. But I'm sure a lot of people said that about the home computer and the internet. The truth is: America can do it. With the right leadership, we can seize this moment. And with Barack Obama as president, we can set our economy on a course for growth and widespread prosperity.

Thank you.

(Photo by AP/Ron Edmonds)

And hey look, Craig Newmark! And Digg is there, too, suggesting Google might have been serious about buying them when they planned this event. Upload your video to YouTube with this "YouTube Upload Station. The YouTube Upload Station is so much more than a MacBook with a T1 connection because it is a democracy engine.

Go, Google. Go, Barack. Go, getting praise in all the papers for reaching out with social media. But please, massages from a company that misspells iPhone? Save that for the Republicans.

(Photos by Steve Rhodes)

"They could use someone with a serious understanding of social media *and* some political / campaign experience," wrote a former government technology adviser in my inbox. "To my knowledge, they don't have that person."

The role would be pretty simple: Keep President Obama's message out front and ahead of his detractors on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Boing Boing and every other breaking-news feed used by Internet addicts who don't trust CNN. Because as this week's fumbled VP announcement demonstrated, if you aren't on message 24/7, you'll be claim-jumped by opponents jamming the channel with misinformation. Obama will need someone to lead the troops. Someone to be available as go-to person for the mainstream media reporters who'll write trend articles based on three status updates.

The position doesn't need a pontificating "thought leader." It needs someone who knows how to own the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee? Marc Andreessen? Caterina Fake from Flickr? Are you serious? There's only one person on Earth with a proven ability to stay on top of Web 2.0 regardless of her message — or lack thereof.

That's our always-on mascot Julia Allison. Unlike any of the proposed nominees, she's dated a congressman. Oh, and she worked on Capitol Hill as a "legislative correspondent." Not much, but that's more exposure to Beltway mores than most of the old goats currently being Twittered for the job. And more than any other member of the Web 2.0 mafia, Julia Allison has a proven track record of getting people to show up for parties — er, meetings. (Photo by Brian Solis)

Some news organizations managed to interrupt the séance between the campaign and its supporters by finding out that Senator Joseph Biden would be the nominee and jumping the announcement by a few hours, after midnight on the East Coast. As soon as Senator Obama began calling the non-nominees, names began leaking out, and the New York Times, MSNBC and others ran stories saying that all signs pointed to Mr. Biden. It was a small victory, but one that served as a reminder that the press will not abide any old script the campaign puts out.

John King of CNN was first to confirm the news. “You knew that there was treasure buried out there and it was just a matter of going and finding it,” Mr. King said in the press area at the Pepsi Center. “They want to make the rules one way, and we say, ‘No, if there is a piece of information, it is our job to go and get it.’”

(Photo by AP/Alex Brandon)

• Biden this year "proposed a $1 billion program to monitor P2P networks for “illegal activity” and a version made it through Judiciary."
• Last year, Biden sponsored an RIAA bill designed to limit the recording and playback of individual songs from Satellite and Internet radio stations.
• Biden "urged the Justice Department to prosecute individuals who allowed mass-copying intentionally through P2P."

Earlier today, users of the microblogging service were convinced Obama had picked Bloomberg. The Twitter users who got word of the real pick heard it through, yes, a Twitter account reposting CNN's story. Why didn't the campaign just direct people to sign up for CNN's breaking-news alerts? Those seem faster.

Here’s a few names to get you thinking:

Mark [sic] Andreessen?
Dave Winer?
Joel Spolsky?
Tantek Celik?
Molly Holzschalg?
Meg Whitman?
Bill Gates?
Steve Wozniak?
Caterina Fake?

Overall, though, I still like the idea of Lessig in the White House.

Oh, and wait until you hear what he says about how he’d retard corruption in the Capitol. The interview will be up in a couple of weeks on FastCompanyTV.

In case it's not obvious, Scoble is pitching himself for the job. Robert, you need to start playing it safe. Never say "retard," even as a verb.

(Photo of Obama by AP/Alex Brandon; photoillustration by Jackson West)

They called it for Kerry in 2004, by refining a guesswork algorithm until it forecast the electoral vote count almost exactly backwards. The site's editor seems to believe that applying the right mathematical formula to inaccurate poll results will get him accurate results. That's the epitome of the old programmer's saying — Garbage in, garbage out.

Scratch that last one: Even the winged-phallus contingent has given up on Second Life and moved its penile protestations back into the real world. Internet politics has yet to prove it can reliably turn up voters willing to put on pants and leave the house to vote — the Second Lifer group on Barack Obama's social network has made all of 6,652 calls and raised $19,355.66.

The Obama campaign just wants your email address — and your name and zip code. That way they can let you know who the vice presidential candidate is and mine all sorts of personal data about you. Emails and phone numbers can be checked against other campaign databases. Everything from your demographic profile to your income range can be determined to better determine the feasibility of asking you for donations, and how much to ask for. Which all gives a whole new meaning to the ad's "personal touch."

(Photo by AP/Euler)

A group of supporters are lobbying the Democratic senator to change his position on the bill on his campaign social network, MyBO. The question is, will Obama actually take serious policy suggestions from supporters using the same website he's already using to mobilize volunteers and, more importantly, raise more cash than any presidential candidate in history? The Magic 8-Ball says "very doubtful." (Photo by AP/Jae C. Hong)

Obama. He's joined the Democratic senator's "India Policy Team." But there's more to it than just ties to India. Khosla is also a big investor in ethanol production, and is pictured here with General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, and Bill Roe, president of ethanol manufacturer Coskata. Obama has taken large donations from ethanol lobbyists and pandered to corn growers as a strategy to boost support in conservative southern Illinois during his run for the senate. Obama can certainly turn to Khosla to argue the merits of turning food into fuel by proxy. Personally, I'm just surprised Khosla has offered no support for presumptive American prime minister Amitabh Bachchan. (Photo by AP/Gary Malerba)