After Labor Day, catching up with the advocacy blogs, and more. Presidential (campaign) Expenditures — note how little goes to online media. How to fake a grassroots uprising. C.f. How To Identify Astroturfers And Front Groups, via Craig...
If you didn’t have a chance to catch Wednesday’s FDH Lounge radio show, they’ll be posting the link soon, and I’ll let you know when you can swing on by the archives ’cause you oughta give it a listen. Host Rick Morris...
Voting for panel ideas for next Spring’s South By Southwest Conference/Festival ends tonight (Friday) at midnight Central Time, so now’s your last chance to ead over to the easy-to-use SXSW Panel Picker and give your thumbs-up to my...
Hey kids, plug in your hi-fi tonight and get ready for an audio extravaganza, ’cause e.politics is back on the radio! Internet radio that is, on the FDH Lounge broadcasting out of Ohio (hello Cleveland!). I’ll go on around 8:30 Eastern...
Also published on techPresident Watching Obama’s online army creak into action on health care reform is painful, particularly for someone who wrote about the ruthless efficiency of his online campaign for president. The enemies may be somewhat...
Late-summer links, fresh off the grill. Update: Online politics leads to offline activism. In other news, the internet can be used to raise money! And promote issues! Plus, water is wet! Okay, okay, go straight to the source for the full story...
What with all the shows, e-books, panels and other crazy stuff being planned down here in the e.politics bunker lately, I’ve completely failed to let you guys know about the two presentations I have in the running for South by Southwest. You...
Also published on techPresident A quick correction to “Learning from Obama” — roughly two-thirds of Barack Obama’s online fundraising in 2007-2008 came in directly via an email solicitation, meaning that the money was donated...
As of 4 AM today, the “Learning from Obama” e-book had been downloaded 2057 times — due of course to the work of everyone who’s linked to it, posted it, forwarded it, Twittered it or maybe even mentioned it in one of those...
If you couldn’t make it to our panel at Netroots Nation (i.e., you weren’t there/awake/sober yet when we went on at 10:30 AM on the first day), fret no more! Conference panels were recorded, and the video from our session (“Scaling...