Rock the Vote and communications giant Comcast have teamed up on a multimedia partnership to encourage young Americans to register to vote. The initiative will include a series of co-branded public service announcements and Internet outreach on Comcast’s family of networks, including E! Networks, VERSUS, The Golf Channel, TV One, FearNet, Comcast Sportsnet, PBS Kids Sprout, CN8 and G4.
Comcast and RTV will be registering young Americans online through these networks’ Web sites as well as at Comcast.net, OurTimetoVote.com, the Comcast voter outreach resource, and Comcast Latino, the Spanish language website at Terra.com, officials said Monday. Additionally, E! will provide behind-the-scenes coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions and will mention the Web sites leading up to the election.
The project builds on the cable industry’s “Our Time to Vote” education and registration campaign, which Comcast helped launch last year. The latest announcement also comes...
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Webb WatchFrom: techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
Post Date: 2006-11-09 06:10:00
Virginia Democrat Senate candidate James Webb claimed victory on Wednesday and effectively began picking out curtains and couches for his new Capitol Hill office. The AP declared Webb the winner that night. But there’s a catch. Incumbent George Allen, a member of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, has not conceded defeat. The eyes of the nation are on the Old Dominion State today....
more Internet Entrepreneur ’Down,’ Not DefeatedFrom: techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
Post Date: 2006-11-09 09:12:25
Intellectual property rights crusader and Utah Republican Orrin Hatch retained his Senate seat on Election Day, defeating Democrat and Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown. Hatch won 62 percent of the vote and Ashdown received 31 percent.
In his concession speech, the president of Internet service provider XMission, thanked his supporters, saying he was bruised, but not beaten and down, but not defeated. Read his prepared remarks here....
more Webb WatchFrom: techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
Post Date: 2006-11-09 06:10:00
Virginia Democrat Senate candidate James Webb claimed victory on Wednesday and effectively began picking out curtains and couches for his new Capitol Hill office. The AP declared Webb the winner that night. But there’s a catch. Incumbent George Allen, a member of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, has not conceded defeat. The eyes of the nation are on the Old Dominion State today.
Meanwhile, our managing editor Danny Glover wrote about Democratic netroots winners, Rightroots lo...
more Ensuring An Open, Dynamic InternetFrom: techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
Post Date: 2006-11-09 14:00:29
The following guest entry was written by Ed Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association. A portion of his remarks were included in a story in today’s Technology Daily.
Less than a decade ago there seemed to be a strong and broad consensus that preserving the open, dynamic, and innovative Internet world was a central priority.
The Supreme Court tossed out the Communications Decency Act on a 9-0 vote and Netizens of all stripes cheered. Congress banned In...
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