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------- Forwarded message follows ------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: PoliticsOnline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The Weekly PoliTicker Date sent: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:50:00 UT ----------THE WEEKLY POLITICKER---------- The Newswire of Politics on the Internet A Publication of PoliticsOnline News, Tools, And Strategies Phil Noble - Publisher David Abel - Editor http://www.PoliticsOnline.com For the Week Ending March 25, 2005 -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- POLITICKER STORY OF THE WEEK -------------------------------------------------- Online Politicking Rules Under Debate The US Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Thursday proposed new ways of apply campaign finance rules to political activity on the internet, asking for public input on limited regulations for the medium. The FEC, which is beginning to consider restrictions on political advertising, blogs, and other online activities, released a document describing the legal issues it plans to take on over the next few months. The agency plans to hold a public hearing on the issue and then vote on the final regulations later this year. Members of congress concerned about possible new regulations have sent letters to the FEC urging that a press exemption apply to the Internet. Senator Harry Reid, D-Nev., has also introduced legislation that would exempt Internet politicking from most of campaign finance regulations. Netizens have likewise been actively trying to persuade the FEC on the issue. In preparation for the FEC's expected vote, a group of bloggers and political activists have organized a petition to the commission through the website Online Coalition (www.onlinecoalition.com). The petition has received over 3,200 electronic signatures as of Friday morning. More: Election Commission Urges Finance Rules For Online Politics http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/politics/25fec.html FEC Signals Light Hand On Internet Campaigning http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61433-2005Mar23.html Bloggers Have Rights Too http://news.com.com/Bloggers+have+rights+too/2010-1034_3-5632544.html Bloggers Narrowly Dodge Federal Crackdown http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5635724.html Internet Election Rules Could Be Blocked http://news.com.com/Internet+election+rules+could+be+blocked/2100- 1028 _3-5628920.html FEC Draft Rules http://www.fec.gov/agenda/2005/mtgdoc05-16.pdf ----------------------------------------- POLITICKER HEADLINES ----------------------------------------- NATIONAL NEWS -- Grass- roots Political Campaigns Move On To The Internet -- It's Prime Time For Blogs On CNN's 'Inside Politics' -- More Politicians Write Blogs To Bypass Mainstream Media -- Podesta Is Grilled Over E-mail -- Senator Clinton Wins Rights To HillaryClinton.com E-GOVERNMENT NEWS -- China E-government Spurs Efficiency Drive -- Report: Federal Cybersecurity Spending Will Hit $7B By 2009 -- Selling E-gov To Agencies INTERNATIONAL NEWS -- Agenda To Create An Information Society In Southeastern Europe Gains Momentum -- CHINA: Non-students Barred From Chat Room -- Chirac Plans French 'Counter-Offensive' On Internet Culture -- Europe Gets Green Light For Internet .eu Extension -- E-mail Is Under-used In UK Politics -- Nepali Reporters Take Democracy Fight To Cyberspace -- Survey: Young People Could Benefit From E-democracy Initiatives HOTSITE: UK Fact Check The Online Fact Check Website has launched in the UK just ahead of election season. Read on below for more. ----------------------------------------- QUOTE OF THE WEEK ----------------------------------------- It’s The Message Not The Medium “Bloggers should be classified as journalists and given First Amendment protections based on the function they perform, not the form of their transmissions.” - Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee. http://news.com.com/Bloggers+have+rights+too/2010-1034_3- 5632544.html? tag=nefd.ac ----------------------------------------- STAT OF THE WEEK ----------------------------------------- IPods Haven’t Conquered The World Yet A new report released Wednesday by Arbitron and Edison Media Research indicates that radio can still grab listeners attention. The average listener spends 2 hours and 48 minutes a day with radio, while those who own iPods and MP3 devices or subscribe to satellite and Internet-based services listen to traditional radio 2 hours 33 minutes a day, according to the report. ----------------------------------------- NATIONAL NEWS ----------------------------------------- Grass-roots Political Campaigns Move On To The Internet (Centre Daily) With the advent of online activist groups such as MoveOn.org, the Internet has showed a remarkable ability to mobilize public opinion and create an increasingly powerful force for democracy. http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/11182898.htm It's Prime Time For Blogs On CNN's 'Inside Politics' (USA Today) Mainstream media continue to be wary of Internet bloggers because the reporting and opinions on their Web sites are often not subject to journalistic checks and balances, such as editing and rules on sourcing. http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-03-20-media- mix_x .htm More Politicians Write Blogs To Bypass Mainstream Media (Christian Science Monitor) Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown is one of the latest to stay in touch with constituents by airing his unedited views online. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0324/p02s01-uspo.html Podesta Is Grilled Over E-mail (The Hill) John Podesta, president of the progressive Center for American Progress (CAP), faced pointed questions from lawmakers at last Thursday’s New Democrat Coalition (NDC) meeting about an inflammatory e-mail his organization sent to liberal activists and bloggers. http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/032305/po desta.html Senator Clinton Wins Rights To HillaryClinton.com (Government Technology) The National Arbitration Forum announced today that a ruling has been issued in favor of Hillary Rodham Clinton regarding rights to the Internet domain name hillaryclinton.com. http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=93429 ----------------------------------------- E-GOVERNMENT NEWS ----------------------------------------- China E-government Spurs Efficiency Drive (China Daily) The State Council vowed recently to facilitate e-governance, bringing the public and governments closer through the Internet. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005- 03/22/content_426911.htm Report: Federal Cybersecurity Spending Will Hit $7B By 2009 (Washington Technology) Federal spending on cybersecurity is expected to increase 27 percent to $7.1 billion by fiscal 2009, according to a new report released by Input Inc., a market research company in Reston, Va. http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/25797-1.html Selling E-gov To Agencies (Federal Computer Week) Agency officials will bolt away from common e-government solutions at the first available opportunity unless the online solution is cheapest service possible, a grants.gov official said today. http://www.fcw.com/article88382-03-23-05-Web ----------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL NEWS --------------------------------- Agenda To Create An Information Society In Southeastern Europe Gains Momentum (European Union) The Electronic Southeastern Europe Secretariat met with high-level officials during the regular eSEE Working Group meeting in Brussels. http://europeandcis.undp.org/?menu=p_article&ArticleID=51 CHINA: Non-students Barred From Chat Room (AsiaMedia) Against the wishes of Tsinghua University, non-students -- even alumni -- will not be able to participate in the campus chat room, as Propaganda Department increases Internet monitoring. http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=21935 Chirac Plans French 'Counter-Offensive' On Internet Culture (CIO.com) French President Jacques Chirac has vowed to launch a new "counter-offensive" against American cultural domination, enlisting the support of the British, German and Spanish governments in a multimillion euro bid to put the whole of European literature online. http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Chirac-Plans-French-- Counter-Offensive--on-Internet-Culture&story_id=31513 Europe Gets Green Light For Internet .eu Extension (Yahoo) Europe will be able to launch its own Internet extension -- .eu -- in early 2006, the French Web site domaines.info that specializes in the registration of domain names said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=7&u=/afp/20050 323/tc_afp/interneteubusiness&sid=96001018 E-mail Is Under-used In UK Politics (BBC) The dramatic rise in home internet access has failed to plug the communication gap between politicians and citizens, a new survey has found. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4373289.stm Related Article: MPs Failing To Use Internet In Voter Apathy Fight http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39129021,00.htm Nepali Reporters Take Democracy Fight To Cyberspace (Reuters) Journalists in Nepal, one of the world's poorest and most backward nations, are going hi-tech to sidestep tight censorship imposed after last month's royal coup. http://www.reuters.co.in/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:424115cb:25824357a 0e99?type=topNews&localeKey=en_IN&storyID=7980149 Survey: Young People Could Benefit From E-democracy Initiatives (PublicTechnology.net) Young people could be one of the groups to benefit from e-democracy initiatives, as evidence gathers that new technologies are changing the way councils engage with citizens. http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file= article&sid=2641 ---------------------------------------- HOTSITE OF THE WEEK ---------------------------------------- UK Fact Check Site URL: http://www.channel4.com/factcheck By: David Abel The Online Fact Check Website has launched in the UK just ahead of election season. The website is made up of a stellar team of political journalists to scrutinize statements and facts given by UK politicians before, during and after the UK's general election. The site takes its lead form the very successful US FactCheck.org, a hugely a successful site launched for during US Presidential election in November 2004. FactCheck promises to provide the most reliable analysis of what the political parties and their leaders are saying. The site will offer unbiased scrutiny of speeches, interviews and manifesto pledges - informing public debate by creating a popular resource for an information-hungry electorate. FactCheck is led by Jon Bernstein, former editor-in-chief of the government's DirectGov website. More: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1318.shtml Political spin: I hate to jump the gun on a site that’s not yet completely functional -- in UK politics you have to be ready – but in the UK, the elections are over before you know it. ----------------------------------------- Want More News? For the rest of what happened on the web this week visit http://www.PoliticsOnline.com ----------------------------------------- David Abel compiled this Weekly PoliTicker. Please send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PoliticsOnline.com News, Tools, And Strategies The future of online politics happens first at PoliticsOnline, the world's premier company providing Fundraising and Internet Tools for Politics. Among the company's many products and services are an award-winning Website, the Internet Campaign Manager CD-ROM, Instant Online Fundraiser v2.0, a daily news and information service, and NetPulse, the Bi-Weekly e-Journal of Politicking on the Internet. 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