Obama's neglect of the netroots bores progressive bloggers; Obama's broad coalition of supporters, cultivated online, may negate the need for the netroots; dueling "red telephone" ads and a much-needed parody; six seconds of silence on a Clinton campaign call; a new aggregation site has a misleading about page; what if Bloomie were stilling running?; and Off The Bus profiles a whopping 200 superdelegates.

The Internet lets us be armchair pundits like never before; it's official: it's no longer cool to be a presidential candidate who's ignorant about technology; jymomma4obama gets the text out; Googlebombing from the right; Google Trends points to Obamentum; a new widget shows the candidates' fundraising hauls; Mike Bloomberg is NOT running for president; Obama has the most complete graphic design package around.

Whither third parties and independents in 2008? Unity08 is fading, as expected. But Bloomberg may yet run, if the conditions are right. With the right message, he could even go all the way.

Is it me, or are the citizen-filmmakers of the world getting behind? This week, only one citizen-created video — the George Bush gender bender clip — caused much of a stir. Most of the other notable vids were either clips taken off of TV, or well-produced campaign ads like John Edwards’ “The Politics of Parsing.” While some campaigns are starting to produce better videos, it’s now up to you, the voters, to counter back with your own work.

If you have a video you think we should seee, drop us a line at info AT techpresident DOT com.

Harry Shearer moderates the hysterical silent debate; MySpace and MTV kick off their presidential forum series with John Edwards next week; Marc Cooper heads the Off the Bus team; Bloomberg for Prez supporters organize on Facebook; Newt shows up in Second Life; Hillary Clinton hosts an "interactive" webcast that's not quite interactive; and Dennis Kucinich sports a new website, bringing him firmly in step with the 21st century.

A connection between the Romney campaign and an anti-Fred Thompson website; the College Republicans are encouraging their minions to use YouTube; Mike Bloomberg's social networking profiles have been slow to take off; Rudy Giuliani is looking for ex-employees to shoot promo videos; Fred Thompson is out with a new and slow campaign video; and Hitwise stats show a huge market share for Thompson's website.