This was forwarded to me this morning... I Vote, You Vote (a project of American Democracy Institute and CREDO Mobile) is "a peer-to-peer system built to get more young people to vote. It is more than just voter registration because it allows politically engaged individuals to finally get their social networks to register."

This is a group for the Young People For Fellows of 2008. Congratulations on being chosen.

This is a forum so we can all start to get acquainted with each other. Knowing who we are makes all the difference!!  See everyone on Thursday.

FACEBOOK

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7454774809

MYSPACE

http://groups.myspace.com/YP42008

You may remember Shawn Dixon as a former YP4 program associate and author of the YP4 Blog column "Café con Leche."

Well, these days he's famous on the Internet. Yesterday Wired magazine profiled Shawn's successful efforts to get John Edwards to come to his tiny hometown, drawing attention to issues that face rural Americans.

(Link and more below the fold)

    I just returned (ok, it was Thursday and I finally posted this on the blog now) from Demos, where they held an excellent discussion of social networking and social change. I would have blogged live but I much prefer to check my spelling and grammar on Microsoft Word and balancing a laptop actually on my lap, is well, awkward. So instead, I am semi-live blogging; coming to you slightly after the fact - but with hopefully limited grammatical errors and chock full o' analysis. Call it a compromise. Besides, I didn't have the network key to log on to the Demos network.

    So grab yourself a latté and cancel all prior appointments, because we have a lot to discuss. Read on, after the break.

Although I must admit it's not a regular occurrence, I do occasionally stumble across the capitalist screed known as the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday, in their Campaign 2006 section they featured an article on a new wave of social networking sites with a political bent.

Read more after the break.