Is anyone "here" involved with media monitoring online? I am looking for any best practices to mention/reference in my research on the Internet and Election Standards. (FYI - NDI has a great resource on media monitoring in general: http://www.ndi.org/globalp/elections/programselc/manuals.asp ) However, other than my visit with the National Election Commission in Korea (they monitored 4,000 web sites for election law violations - mostly finding "false statements" in forums), I am not aware of examples of monitoring and reporting of weekly online trends related to online media coverage. The general idea with media monitoring is to point out what is happening in an "objective" manner such that it might promote more balanced coverage all in the name of free and fair elections. I would guess that a number of you are using tools to archive candidate web sites in the U.S. election. Please tell me about the state of the art and any thought you have about reporting results weekly. Please reply to: clift@publicus.net Sincerely, Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@publicus.net Join DoWire: http://dowire.org