Our Beloved Facebook

Ever wonder how our beloved Facebook got started. The creator of Facebook, 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, is on the cover of this week's Newsweek and you can read the article all about how he came up with the site and what he's got planned next. Facebook has undoubtedly become a big part of college life. You can read the full article here.

Facebook flounders

Caroline Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani's daughter from his second/third/who even knows marriage, was endorsing Barack Obama for president. Noting herself as liberal on her fbook profile, and a member of "One million strong for Barack Obama," this raises some questions. In any case, the Slate contacted her about it, and she took it down. No comments have been made. Apparently she's estranged from her father after his divorce with her mother. Either way, I think children's lives are private and more power to her for being independent. Why can't the press just leave children of candidates alone if they do not want to get involved in the politics? Don't make the dads go all Jed Bartlet/Zoey Bartlet on you!

Great shot/chaser from the Hotline's Last Call! today regarding this.

SHOT . . .

"He's my father. He's my blood" -- Andrew Giuliani, on supporting his dad (ABCNews.com, 8/6).

. . . CHASER

"With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy" -- Darth Vader ("The Empire Strikes Back," 1980).

Yearly Kos

Although many of the Democratic candidates, particularly all the frontrunners, are attending the Yearly Kos convention, a lollapalooza for bloggers, media, and party activists, it's clear Hillary is making some serious efforts to garner some blogger love. True, Daily Kos likes to hate on her (Daily Kos, though often filled interesting info and honest, relevant analysis, can be haters) and yet, here she is, defending them against Bill O'Reilly's scathing remarks about daily kos.

Besides her quick response to O'Reilly and generous remarks about kos, she's continued her blog-love efforts with this, rearranging her schedule completely in order to participate in Yearly Kos's small, break out sessions with the candidates. Even though she had already made it clear that she couldn't make the sessions due to scheduling issues (not the Rudy/Romney -let's-avoid-real-questions-from-Americans-incl-snowmen kind of scheduling issues) she's recognizing the importance the netroots have on campaigns. Interestingly, while we think of the net as only young people, almost 40% of fbook users are over the age of 35, 46% of myspace users are over 35 yrs, and more than half of youtube users are 35 yr to 64 yr (comScore). Clinton can reach out to us collegiates, and Grandma, all at the same time.