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House Dems Debut New Media Group (Hillicon Valley)
Earlier this week House Democrats launched a campaign to help members better utilize social networks before the 2010 midterm elections.

Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole
(The Wall Street Journal)
Have these social networking sites been breaching their own privacy policies as well as industry standards?

How Social Media Can Effect Real Social and Governmental Change
(Mashable)
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark shares his thoughts on how meaningful social and governmental change is being implemented today through social networks.

Facebook: The Entire Web Will Be Social (Gigaom)
At the launch of its f8 conference in San Francisco today, Facebook announced its master plan to make the rest of the web social.

The coming of age of the Millennial Generation, the first civic generation since the GI Generation (dubbed the Greatest by Tom Brokaw), is converging with the arrival of the most civic-friendly communication technologies we have ever seen. And with this convergence, American politics is being reshaped. That was the message delivered yesterday by Morley Winograd and Michael Hais at the Internet Advocacy Roundtable. The authors of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube & the Future of American Politics provided some serious grist for the mill to the audience gathered at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Building on a rich body of research about political realignment in America, Hais and Winograd explained that a key driving force in realigning the political landscape is the arrival of new communications technology, and the coming of age of a new generation that embraces the technology and demands its incorporation into the political process. The rise of radio in the 1930’s and television in the 1960’s both reshaped politics in this country. And today, the rise of online social media is doing it once again. (more…)