Senator Hillary Clinton has become the first guest blogger on Glamour magazine's Glamocracy blog using the opportunity to write a piece on women finding their voices. For many who have hoped to see greater use of blogging by the candidates themselves and not just their staffers, the piece is probably a disappointing read, more like a short essay or editorial and of course it is for a mainstream media outlet. With that said, it is a step in the right direction!

The New York Times has an article by Saul Hansell looking into the use of online advertising networks and how campaigns are utilizing them with often undesired effect. The big example given is the appearance of Mitt Romney ads on Gay.com however it is a problem I've hardly seen limited to that one candidate or incident.

Patrick Ruffini is breaking out the digital champagne seeing trouble from e-mail for Republicans as Obama raises 1.8 Million in a new appeal to voters. Ruffini gives three e-mails sent from the campaign credit. Not to be a skeptic, but do we know this was all done with e-mail? It might have but we don't have enough information to say it definitively.

I am glad to see that a post I wrote, Candidates' Blogs: Glorified Public Relations? has received some good discussion in the comments section at techPresident as well as some other blogs. On MYDD user Psericks wrote a critique of my post that is generating even more discussion. So I thought it would be good to follow-up on that critique and further explore the issue.

Did you read the blog post on the candidate Web site where the blogger gushed over the candidate and outlined the talking points of the campaign? So did I, over and over and over again. I have to be honest, I follow a lot of blogs but I almost never read the blog sections of the candidate’s sites. I cannot imagine most of you do either.