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A project of PDF, TechPresident was started by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry as a new group blog that covers how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the web, and vice versa; how content generated by voters is affecting the campaigns.

Thanks to custom modules Advomatic built that scrape data from social networks, TechPresident is able to evaluate the relative strengths of the campaigns' SocNet efforts. TechPresident.com tracks all these changes in real-time, covering everything from campaign websites, online advertising and email lists to the postings on YouTube all the way down in importance to who's got the fastest growing group of friends on MySpace.

TechPresident won the $10,000 Grand Prize for "Innovations in Journalism" from The Knight-Batten Awards. There were even some other Drupal sites among the great honorable mentions and nominees including NewAssignment.net, the Reuters Second Life Virtual News Bureau, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Crisis Guide.