Here’s a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing...
More details now on our Netroots Nation panel, which will focus on using what we’ve all learned from the Obama campaign, and not just the part about raising money online. The panel now includes, besides me: Judith Freeman — with the New...
Lockheed Martin has purchased ad space on a number of nonpartisan, politically oriented websites, with many of the ads promoting funding for the F-22 fighter plane. Each presents some information about the company’s position and links back to...
Hi y’all, poor Allyson Kapin lost her mind long enough to ask me to write a guest piece over on Frogloop, and it’s live at last — now unkillable by man or beast. The idea behind the article: that in an economic downturn, it may be...
Remember that Twitter op-ed piece I wrote a couple of months ago? Let’s take a deeper look at it now that a little time has passed and see what we can learn, since writing a column for the newspaper is a time-honored way to influence the...
Time for that rare moment in this business, when you actually get to unveil a project that’s been in development for months. In this case, the International Biochar Initiative’s new online home is also my first site built using Drupal...
Speaking of The Good Doctor Rosenblatt and continuing the week’s apparent emphasis on elections and their aftermath, let’s vote again, this time for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of the Internet and Politics. Alan’s...
Alan Rosenblatt has unearthed a most fascinating artifact: a guide to online activism produced by a white supremicist in the days before the World Wide Web was all that wide. Alan ran across it in the late 1990s and recently found it again, and...
I surrender! I surrender! The e.politics inbox has been besieged by messages like this one over the past few days: Late Sunday night, eight superheroes announced their candidacy for DC Mayor. The brains behind these campaigns are New Organizing...
Well, Sarah Palin’s sure given the political class something to chatter about this week, but what impresses me is that she’s apparently managed not to hold a job for longer than a year or two throughout most of her professional life...