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We had mentioned last week that we attended rallies for presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. Video footage and our impressions will be along shortly, but we’ve just uploaded a batch of photos from the events. They’re embedded below.

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This Tuesday the New School will be hosting its biggest event ever in order to report on the Super Tuesday primary results. All of the New School’s bloggers will be present to cover the election live. Additionally, for the first time ever, we will be streaming live video coverage through Mogulus onto the website featuring a panel discussion hosted by Zach, Efty, and Ryan, along with live news, prerecorded interviews, and more. The video coverage will include footage of McCain, Obama, and Clinton campaign events that the New School has attended in the past week.

Live text and video blogging will being at 7 PM EST and continue throughout the night.

Finally, we welcome and encourage viewer participation, so if you would like to enter any video or text posts be sure to send them to us!

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Ryan, Efty, and Zach are currently attending a John McCain campaign rally in Fairfield, CT. We’re filming, along with doing interviews, all of which will be posted shortly and become a part of our New School LIVE video coverage on Tuesday.

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New School Politics began in December of 2006. Its three founders, Eftychis, Ryan, and Zach, sought to create a forum for political discourse that included all viewpoints. While we began as an objectivist, a liberal, and a conservative, we’ve now grown to a group of more than ten writers. All are students, and all write from a different perspective.

Just more than a year has gone by since we opened NSP, and we think the coming months will be even better than the past year. To kick things off right, we’ve redesigned the site with a bit of help from Julien De Luca. You’ll hopefully find the aesthetic improvements to make the site much more visually appealing, and we expanded the total area taken up by the text to increase the amount of content we could fit on the page. We’ve made a host of tech tweaks in recent weeks to make the site easier to use while adding new features. We’re still playing around with the finer points of the design, but I think it’s safe to call this New School Politics 2.0.

Perhaps the most important change of all, however, is our post frequency. Months ago, readers might have not seen new content from NSP in days. Now, the new New School Politics has been publishing more than two to three posts per day, and we’ve had an astounding nine posts in the past thirty six hours. Our readership seems to notice too, as our analytics metrics are showing more return visitors who delve deeper into NSP’s vast archives for more content. In the coming days, we’ll hopefully have some new writers join our staff, as well as having our current staff ratchet up the post frequency even more.

We’ve also expanded into other areas besides traditional written posts. In the coming weeks, New School Politics will announce further endeavors into rich media, including a podcast. We have several episodes already recorded, and they’ll be put up in the next couple of weeks. Last week’s Blog of the Union attracted dozens of readers to interact and debate with NSP’s editors and some of its authors. It’s great to interact with readers, and we encourage you to comment on the site, or post our content elsewhere [like digg, reddit, or del.icio.us] . Next week, we’ll intensify our foray into Web 2.0 with a live video broadcast on what’s been dubbed “Super Duper Tuesday” by the mainstream media. Half of our staff will cover the primary results via liveblogging, as with the State of the Union. The other half will participate in New School Politics Live, a new show that we’ll produce using the Mogulus’ online broadcasting system. More details will be posted about that tomorrow.

We’re proud of what we’ve done so far, and we hope you continue to read as we expand further. January has been our best month at New School Politics, with more than twice the readers of any other month we’ve had before. We couldn’t have done any of this without our readers. It’s great to know that every day, there are people who truly care about the fate of our nation, and who are eager to debate about politics and economics. Candidates like Barack Obama have espoused change throughout their candidacies, and we’ve changed nearly everything at New School Politics. We think it’s for the better, and we hope to interact with you in the coming months as we continue our coverage of the 2008 elections and world politics.

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Our live coverage of President Bush’s 2008 State of the Union address is after the jump for those who would like to replay our live blogging. Thanks for joining us!

We’d like to recommend Slate’s interesting analysis of Bush’s language choice in the State of the Union.  It’s an interesting analysis of trends and the effect of current events on his wording. Lire le reste de cet article »

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This evening is President Bush’s State of the Union address. New School Politics will be providing live coverage of the event via a new service, CoverItLive, which will be embedded on the site and will update automatically with our commentary. Eftychis, Ryan, and I [Zach] will be blogging the event with commentary, opinions, observations, our favorite links from elsewhere, and more. Readers can join in with the CoverItLive widget as well, which will appear on New School Politics at about 8PM Eastern Standard Time. You’ll be able to make comments, and more.

We look forward to joining you this evening for the State of the Union. For a reminder, just click on the widget below!

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We encountered some problems after upgrading our Wordpress installation to 2.3.2 on Thursday night. Thanks for bearing with us while we figured everything out. While updating, we added some other plugins we think our readers will find interesting. Additionally, you may notice a completely revamped sidebar. We’ll go over the changes after the jump.

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In our first Quarterly Report Card at the conclusion of 2007’s first quarter, we made several promises. First, we promised more content and more writers. Since then, we’ve slowly been adding writers to our staff without a full announcement. Without further delay, I’d like to announce our four new writers: Ryan Chou, Frank Rinaldi, George Hansel, and Chas Morrison. Each will publish entries categorized under their own name. I’ve included a brief snippet about each of them to help our readers understand who helps to bring great content to New School Politics every day. If you’d like to join our burgeoning staff of writers, we’d love to have you. Please send us an e-mail and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Our new writers have caused an influx of comments and visitors. We feel that the new user group has helped to bring a sense of community to the blog; new users engage in intelligent banter with older, more experienced readers, and the entire blog, including its readers, benefit.

New School Politics has embraced a variety of technological means to get our new articles out to the public. Primarily, if you’d like to stay updated, we invite you to subscribe to our RSS feed, which pushes site updates out every time a new article is published. If you’d like to learn more about RSS, please visit “What is RSS?” Furthermore, if you’re a member of Twitter, we invite you to follow our blog. You’ll get updates on your mobile phone if you choose. When our Q1 Report was published, New School Politics had integrated “Share This” buttons to get our content on social news sites. We’ve since disabled those buttons and we’re currently working on a more improved solution. In the mean time, feel free to get a Digg, Reddit, or Del.icio.us account and help promote the articles yourself. Soon enough, we’ll have built in sharing features to help all users share articles.Social news isn’t the only new feature coming.

We also had discussed redesigning the blog. We’ve taken considerable steps forward and we’re proud to announce that a redesign is coming. We’ve signed Leo Mancini to custom design every facet of the blog. When the design is complete, you’ll notice a new logo, a new layout, new sharing features, and lots more. We hope our readers benefit from these changes and, should you have any opinions regarding the redesign, we invite you to e-mail us from the Contact tab. As New School Politics has grown, we’ve made some friends in the blogosphere. We’d like to thank frequent commenters like Simmons of Thoughts on the World for livening discussion on the blog, and we invite anyone simply reading the blog to interact via the comments, or by e-mailing us.  Thanks again to all our readers for your continuous support, and we hope to bring you a better New School in the future.  Have a terrific summer! 

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We at New School Politics are committed to enhancing your experience on our site. Currently, New School Politics looks pretty great in a desktop browser, but, if you try to go to it from your mobile phone, the site rapidly deteriorates. Today, we’re changing that. I’ve done some backend coding and added some plugins to the site in an attempt to make it more mobile-friendly. If you’re not reading our RSS feed, which is already usable on the go with RSS readers like Google Reader and my favorite, Netvibes, you can visit the site on any WAP-enabled cell phone and be sent directly to the special version of our site.

The Apple iPhone is the most recent “got to have it” gadget, and I bought mine last week. That’s why we’ve prepared a special treat for iPhone users, whether they’re using the site over WiFi or over EDGE. As with the WAP version of our site, all iPhone users have to do is browse over to NewSchoolPolitics.com, where they’ll be greated with a special version of our site.

The New School…Now on an iPhone Near You

We hope you enjoy the most recent additions to NSP, and we thank you for reading. If you encounter any trouble, or have any comments about mobile support, just leave us a note after this post. We encourage you to stay tuned to NSP for the next couple of days, as we have some large announcements to make in our quarterly review. Thanks!

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In our Quarterly Report Card, we mentioned the need for more bloggers to handle the need for more content. Today we’re going to start delivering on that promise. We’ve received several applications and are going through them as rapidly as we can. So far, however, we’ve recruited two new bloggers to write for New School Politics. Hopefully, the addition of these two well-versed teenagers will help to provide our readers with the quality content they’ve come to expect from New School Politics with the post frequency they deserve. If you’d still like to apply to write for us, just send an e-mail to us.

Our first new author, Elizabeth, attends high school with the three founding bloggers. She, like Ryan, is a believer of objectivism. Almost fluent in French, Liz is very interested in French society and politics. She’ll bring a fresh outlook on international issues; not just those pertaining to the United States.

We’d also like to welcome Paul to the team. Paul pulls his political ideals from the left, often choosing to describe himself as a liberal social democrat. Paul lives in Vancouver, Canada and is fluent in both English and French. His personal blogprovides a wealth of information for readers as well.

We’ve found our two new writers to be exceedingly knowledgeable in a wide array of fields and hope their talent adds to the standard of excellence we maintain at New School Politics.

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