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Exhorting young voters to get to the polls has traditionally been a tough task for grassroots efforts like Rock the Vote. Now, just in time for this fall's U.S. midterm elections--with the entire House of Representatives, many senators and a handful of governors up for re-election--social-networking hub MySpace.com has launched its own pro-voting effort.

The site has partnered with nonpartisan organization "Declare Yourself" to launch a MySpace group that members can join to track down resources and register to vote in either standard or absentee form. This move might raise a few eyebrows: The News … Read more

Yesterday we noted that the Fox interview of Bill Clinton rolled across the vlogosphere and led the traffic race on YouTube.

Numerous posted clips from that Fox interview are still on YouTube. Apparently Foxy lawyers have abandoned all hope of protecting their copyright. Or maybe the marketers realize free publicity can be priceless.

Today the ripples widen from the original Clinton v. Wallace bout. Three of the eight most popular videos on YouTube Wednesday morning are reactions to the original interview. Now videos from MSNBC and C-Span have been pulled into the fray. The newer videos range from the senatorial … Read more

Microsoft has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement to distribute live music concerts on its MSN Web site for acts like Rod Stewart.

The 36 concerts under the deal will be produced by Control Room, formerly Network Live, the company that worked on the Live 8 concerts in 2005.

MSN will stream the concerts live and provide on-demand access to the programming afterward, says Rob Bennett, general manager of entertainment and video at MSN. Viewers will not have to pay to watch the concerts, which will have ads.

The first show will be singer John Legend performing at Royal Albert Hall … Read more

Microsoft is considering ways to get people to use its new Soapbox user-generated video Web site, including paying them or offering them points that can be redeemed on other Microsoft services, according to a Microsoft executive.

"We are looking at variety of ways to reward people who participate" said Rob Bennett, general manage of entertainment and video at MSN. Anybody can upload video, share videos on the site with others, embed the video player in their blogs and tag and rate videos they see.

"We've looked at a range of possible options," he said. "… Read more

A censored summary of the controversial National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is now available online. Expect to have trouble getting to the file due to heavy traffic.

President Bush announced Tuesday he was having portions of the document declassified and put online. The full report was completed last spring.

When leaked portions of the NIE were published over the weekend, there was even more roiling and ranting political argument over the Iraq War and terrorism. Now you can see at least some of the NIE for yourself.

Social-networking phenom Facebook keeps getting bigger. Not long ago, it was the online-directory project of a few Harvard University students. Then founder Mark Zuckerberg let it spread to other Ivy League schools. It wasn't long before seemingly all college students were using it every day. And then, last fall, Zuckerberg let high schoolers join the fray.

Not all students could have predicted that when Facebook opened its .edu domain membership doors to a few well-known .com and .org groups, it would soon be open to the general public. But as the site considers a hefty buyout by Yahoo and … Read more

NBC Universal plans to announce later this week a program with Intel that will allow consumers who own Viiv PCs or Centrino notebooks to download current TV shows including "Heroes" and "Studio 60 on Sunset Strip."

During his keynote address at the chipmaker's developer forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini also said that the next Toshiba HD DVD product will run on an Intel x86 chip. It's due in October.

SAN DIEGO, CALIF.--It is time for the millions of business travelers who constantly find themselves in hotels and coffee shops desperately trying to get online to say, loud and clear, "We're fed up and we're not going to take it anymore."

That's because it is time for hotel and cafe operators to get it. It, of course, being the idea that this is late 2006, and Wi-Fi is a commodity, and should be free. Everywhere.

Of course, many hotels and coffee shops do get it, sometimes even in the most unexpected places, and provide … Read more

It was inevitable. Former President Bill Clinton...a live interview on Fox Network News...interviewer Chris Wallace. The question about Osama Bin Laden. Bill telling Chris he has a smirk on his face.

Not since Colbert did the D.C. Press Club has the Web had such a hot political video.

There are now many versions of this TV interview on YouTube. You can find pro-Clinton, and you can find anti-Clinton. Both of these clips have over half a million viewings already. There are numerous other Clinton/Wallace clips on YouTube as well.

Fox has apparently responded haltingly to the … Read more