by Chloe Albanesius
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is readying its Web site for a relaunch that promises to incorporate the social media tools the party admits to ignoring during the 2008 election, but is today’s Web 2.0 friendly to the GOP?Â
“Conservatives didn’t use the tools” available to them during the election, Todd Herman, the RNC’s [...]

By Matthew Dornic
In the midst of the RNC’s attack on ABC News for their daylong health care report; planned to air tomorrow from the White House, a group of 40 Republican House members who recently formed the “Media Fairness Caucus,” took a shot at the network. In a letter to ABC, the group blasts ABC’s [...]

By Leena Rao

Todd Herman, former Microsoft and MSNBC.com employee and streaming media expert, has been named the Director of New Media for the Republican National Committee. Herman founded and ran SpinSpotter, a startup that provides tools to detect spin in news stories.
Here’s a snippet of Herman’s bio from SpinSpotter’s website:
Todd wrote the initial strategy and [...]