techPresident is Essential Reading

I found techPresident just before starting my masters program at Hopkins.  I was forwarded their email newsletter and promptly signed up; that first issue (September 11) had great coverage on the money raised in the aftermath of Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech on health care.  Since then, the stories techPresident covers have been consistently interesting, cutting edge, and with a strong pulse for the national political dialogue and how technology factors into it.  It has also lived on my blogroll since starting the Strategerist.

That said, I'm not as familiar with the website itself, as I've largely been a consumer of their coverage via email.  I click through to stories that I find interesting, but I hadn't spent a great deal of time perusing the depth of the site until now.  They have some great material housed there - I'm particularly interested in their charts tracking Facebook and Technorati activity (the YouTube link appears to be broken), as well as the database of candidate blogs.  All of these are useful tools to get a gauge for what is happening on the web, and it is very helpful to have it living in one, easily reachable place.  A little digging about techPresident reveals that it is "crosspartisan" (wonk-alert) and dedicated to covering the use of the internet in political campaigns, as well as how existing government organizations are using the web.  Personally, I've been more interested in the latter; techPresident is where I first heard of the White House's switchover to a Drupal platform for their website.

techPresident has done a great job of staying on top of these developments, and consistently provides deep, insightful analysis on a wide range of internet politics issues.  I'm constantly impressed with just how much they have to talk about.  The daily email regularly has a huge deal of content, reflecting their ability to keep the site up to date.  Kudos to techPresident to providing such comprehensive coverage.  Resources like these are just one more indicator that we're really only scratching the surface of how the internet will impact politics.  If this much material is being generated each day right now, I can't even imagine how much there will be to analyze in five years - or, for that matter, by the time of the next presidential election.