I recently came across an interesting blog, by the name of TechSlant. While the writing at TechSlant isn’t outstanding, the ideas and concepts they’re putting forth are quite interesting, covering topics from politics to Open ID to music downloads.

TechSlants most recent articles talks about politics. I know, ‘ho-hum, another politics blog’, but this isn’t just a post reviewing the candidates, or pimping Ron Paul, its a look at how technology has effected the race. From fundraising to Youtube, the 2008 presidential election has been effected by the internet in a way never seen before. Barack Obama has raised over 100,000,000 (100 million) through his website, Ron Paul became the top fundraiser for the GOP in the 4th quarter of 2007 through his site despite having only a small amount of the electorate, the ‘macaca’ speech by the senator from Virginia, posted on YouTube, sunk his presidential ambitions. Those are only a few of the most obvious examples, every candidate has been in a race to harness the web to spread their message and raise money. See it here: Politics and Technology

In another recent post, TechSlant examines the online music industry. Itunes is obviously the proverbial 500 pound elephant in legal online music sales, but this article doesn’t focus on that. Instead it looks at subscription based music services like Yahoo’s, who recently sold their service to Rhapsody. The post discusses the possible outcomes of this merger, including price changes and lock-in.

All in all, its quite an interesting read.

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