Voto Latino and Sí TV team up to produce a citizen journalism contest called Crash the Parties; Wonkette is sold, memories are triggered; Steve Johnson compares ants to politics; more on Mayhill Fowler, the citizen journalist behind Bittergate; MediaCurves charts real-time reactions to Obama's Bittergate response; the Beatles are to 2006 as Foghat is to 2008; Hillary has another scripted conversation; an interview with Elizabeth Edwards; and Mike Huckabee launches HuckPac.

The Politico launches a young voter-themed sub-site; Debate Porridge calls the campaigns on a Saturday and finds that most of them aren't working; interesting numbers about the effectiveness of campaigns' web effectiveness from the Politico's Ryan Grim and Compete.com; a puff piece about Joe Trippi tracks his rise to de facto campaign manager of the Edwards campaign; and Stephen Colbert passes Bill Richardson in a poll and more than 500,000 are members of a pro-Colbert Facebook group.

Slate writers on the glories of Google Suggest; James Kotecki officially joins the Politico; are DailyKos' traffic numbers artificially inflated by Sitemeter?; the lack of social conservatives online; techPresident is profiled by the Washington Post; Leon Wolf leaves the Brownback campaign; Marc Ambinder thinks Chris Dodd's web team is the most innovative out there; Barack Obama and the 21st-century fireside chat; a report from Elizabeth Edwards' meetup with mommy bloggers; and Obama's blog outreach guy leaves the campaign.

It’s that time again when we take a look at our favorite political videos of the week. Some are produced by the campaigns, some are about the campaigns, and some have nothing to do with the campaigns. But in our estimation, they’ve all struck a socio-political nerve.

As always, we welcome your suggestions. Send them along to techpres AT personaldemocracy DOT com.

Videos after the jump...

Wikipedia and the candidates; Jane Hamsher sends an open letter to Elizabeth Edwards; Fred Thompson's website a hit with older men; tracking candidates' buzz? Here's five sites that can help; John McCain suggest that MoveOn.org move out of the country; the "telephone town hall" idea takes hold.

The first Modern Media Strategies workshop is judged a success; CBS.com and washingtonpost.com announce a partnership that will expand the media's coverage of 2008; Ron Paul launches a contest asking Meetup supporters to compete to contribute the most money; Morra Aarons on Elizabeth Edwards in the blogosphere; and John McCain's new documentary about himself.

Parents’ blogs are buzzing with conversations stemming from the recent New York Times article on kids on the 2008 Election Trail. I thought the Edwards’s attitude to their children on the trail was creepy, even though I think Mrs. Edwards is a heroine. This article brought on a discussion among women bloggers that is a particular to 2008, when we have several young candidates with young children (and some not so young candidates with young children—sorry, Senator Dodd).

Potential problems with journalists using Facebook; Ron Paul is excluded from an online straw poll; Mitt Romney invites supporters to create a campaign TV ad with a new online mashup tool; former Yahoo director of election strategy Cyrus Krohn on his new job as the RNC's eCampaign director; Chris Dodd updates his website to reflect his firefighter endorsement; and Elizabeth Edwards gets criticized by a mommy in the blogosphere.

Fallout from Elizabeth Edwards' quote; Rocketboom on how Denver '08 will be open access; cracks in the liberal-left; bundling for the unbundled; Ellen Goodman weighs in on net-gender; YouTube YouChoose has issues; ABC and NBC liberate pres-video; Republicans use the net for stealth attacks; and we win an award...

Elizabeth Edwards' announcement that her breast cancer has returned in a potentially more dangerous form is sad news, and we salute her and John's courage in declaring that they will fight on. Our best wishes to them both.

It's interesting to look at how the other top campaigns are responding online...