One quick observation from the Fem2.0 conference — during the current plenary session, a six-person panel discussion, the organizers are displaying the event’s Twitter feed (#fem2) on a screen behind the panelists. The benefit is that it...
With the holidays long past and the Inauguration frenzy over (at least mostly — I’m STILL fighting a cold no-doubt brought to town by a visiting Obamamaniac), the consulting and training sides of the e.politics industrial machine are...
One of the more noteworthy developments in the online politics world over the past six months has been the enthusiastic embrace of the micro-blogging tool Twitter by conservative activists, particularly after the “Dontgo” movement this...
Cross-posted on Fem2.0 Quick: off the top of your head, name the most prominent voices in the progressive political blogosphere. Kos? A guy. Atrios? A guy. Josh Marshall? Glenn Greenwald? Jerome Armstrong? Ditto. The only top-level female bloggers...
Cross-posted on techPresident and K Street Cafe At a New Organizing Institute presentation this morning, former Obama new media director Joe Rospars (last seen in these pages talking about the importance of good content to the campaign’s work)...
The Politics Online Conference is coming in April and the organizers already want to know what YOU want to see (democracy? that’s crazy talk!). Let me pre-bias you in favor of a few of ’em, since I proposed two and am part of the package...
Check out this event Thursday: my old friend Hank Dearden has organized a night of progressive politics, technology, humor and beer at the excellent U Street-area hangout Busboys and Poets. Here’s the scoop: NaturePath Productions presents...
Ginormous post-Inauguration catch-up edition — fruits of a month of random browsing, obsessive clicking and a ton of Google Alerts. Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages. Lots of talk about the new Whitehouse.gov: New...
E.politics may only have earned about $40 total from Google Ads so far, but sometimes they yield something even more valuable — a story idea. In this case, check out the ad (screenshot below) that appeared on the site about 10 days ago: The ad...
The difference between Inauguration 2009 and its equivalent eight years ago was so vast that it’s hard to know where to start. The entire public mood of the city inverted — we endured mobs of party-goers instead of protesters, and did so...