Another recent Slate.com piece highlighted more changes to candidates’ Web sites caught by Versionista, noting, particularly, edits on Internet privacy on Obama’s Technology page. This latter edit caused quite a bit of stir online, particularly with a Slashdot reference. The Obama campaign responded as noted in this Wired article.

A nice summary of Versionista from ABC News Science and Technology blog.

We didn’t realize until now that the McCain site linked to Versionista again. They were highlighting edits to Obama’s Social Security page.

More notably, another use of Versionista by the McCain site garnered some international press. Their highlight of changes to Obama’s Urban Policy page, and the deletion of reference to a Foreclosure Prevention Fund, was mentioned in The Scotsman, The Press and Journal, and The Spectator.

Slate.com published many, many interesting Versionista edits. If you’re interested to see recent edits to the political sites, check the Slate article for notable before-and-after comparisons. (Note that we have a new logo in Slate… you will be seeing it here as soon as we get the new site design in place.)

The Slate piece was used as a basis for this Dutch article. Perhaps related, we also got another mention in CNET.

Why, oh why, is the term “August 3, 2008″ in the top 10 of the most searched for terms on the NY Times… for several weeks running now? And several weeks AFTER August 3rd!

Minutia warning! There is a 95% chance that this edit on the NYT’s The Caucus blog won’t be interesting to you! But to me it is pretty fascinating. The byline swap… “handshake” to “hug”… a streamlined summary of McCain and 9/11 on the sidebar. (I know where “handshake” came from… parts of the article were written before the meet; see this even earlier version.)

Politico links to Versionista to highlight a recent change to Cindy McCain’s biography page.

With so many news blogs competing for eyeballs this cycle, an occasional breathless headline is forgivable.

As a news aggregator primarily, Matt Drudge has ostensibly little room to advance his oft-alleged editorial bias. His tiniest edits, then, are worth examining.

In the few weeks we’ve been monitoring Drudge, all’s quiet on the partisan front. That said, here, headlines become more impactful when “pro soccer team” shifts to just “soccer team”, and “American Airlines” is removed from an air rage article. A Katie Couric pull-quote replaces a stodgy headline. The qualifying “after all” is removed from a story about New Hampshire accepting “Chavez oil”.