Merry Christmas! The turkey’s still in the oven, but these links are ready to serve. Ari Melber: Obama for America 2.0?. Plane Crash Kills GOP Internet Consultant. A cell-phone modification for on-the-spot disease detection and monitoring, via...
Cross-posted on techPresident A week or two ago, I happened to catch the C-Span broadcast of a fascinating discussion at Harvard’s Kennedy School — PBS’s Gwen Ifill moderated a panel including David Axelrod and David Plouffe from...
The Campaign 2008 discussion at GW’s School of New Media and Public Affairs earlier this month covered a lot more than just the importance of video in the Obama online machine: among other topics, the panel of experienced journalists...
Home for the holidays? Here’s some light reading to distract you from your “beloved” kinfolk. The Revolution of the Online Commentariat. Will bloggers eventually dominate the campaign power structure? Hmmmm, let’s hear a...
Or, The Great State Of Texas, for those of you not familiar with the shorthand used by staff in the Texas Legislature (ah, my distant youth!) to describe that most cherished of phrases in the political lexicon of the Lone Star State. I DARE you to...
Well, it looks as though the recession has hit even the D.C. area, which is usually immunized somewhat against bad economic times by the presence of the federal government and all who feed on it. The latest evidence — what happened to the...
Most coverage of Barack Obama’s online campaign has focused on its scale (13 million email addresses!), the amount of money raised and its use of social networking sites, including the public sites like MySpace/Facebook and the “walled...
Clearing the decks — the results of several weeks of random browsing. How Hulu is Like Obama, via Andrew Golisg. Dear President Obama: There are a couple of embarrassing e-mails from my past that I think you should know about. What Next for...
You know, all this “hope” talk lately has been getting to me. Maybe it’s my father’s roots in Louisiana, where the cash is in the freezer, or perhaps it’s my mom’s ties to Arkansas, where outsiders just...
One of my favorite online politics events is happening this weekend, and I just can’t hardly wait: RootsCamp is coming to town, or at least to the northeast quadrant of town, and this year e.politics is pleased to be a sponsor. If you’ve...