A quick update from the technical side of online politics: Grassroots Enterprises has put out a new virtual phone-banking tool they’re calling PhoneTheVote. Virtual phone banks replace a roomful of volunteer callers with a distributed network...
Wow, two nasty online tricks on the same day, what a lucky bunch we are. First, check out this John Dickerson piece about a viral email that’s been nagging the Obama campaign like a bad cold. Apparently, word is spreading that Barak...
Cross-posted on techPresident Continuing today’s exciting news from the Republican side of our little presidential campaign, Bruce Reed notes in Slate that Rudy Giuliani’s official blog seems to be acting in sympathy with Hollywood...
Finally, someone on the Republican side (other than Ron Paul) is exploring new ground online: a great article in the today’s Times looks at how some Mitt Romney online display ads showed up on sites that the campaign didn’t exactly plan...
The Sunlight Foundation has just put Google Earth to an excellent advocacy purpose: letting us follow the (budgetary) money. As the Foundation’s Gabriela Schneider writes: Mashing up Google Earth and with the companies, universities and...
Ron Paul and his band of online insurgents did it again — they mobilized online support to gin up tons of cash (a cool $4.2 million) and make the mainstream media take notice. Outside the Beltway has a good wrap-up of news coverage, and of...
Many things in life benefit from a little parody, but some cultural artifacts are so extreme on their own that there’s no over-topping them. The silliest ’70s retro party you ever went to has NOTHING on the real thing, as you’ll...
Interesting new development in the world of social networking, with Google announcing the creation of a platform for Facebook Application-like tools that can run on more than one social networking site. The initial partners include Engage.com...
Well, our shiny metallic friends (and future overlords) can’t cast a ballot just yet, but you’ve got to love a story that starts off like this: If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the...
The latest of Internet politics legend Alan Rosenblatt’s Internet Advocacy Roundtables covered free online advocacy tools, particularly those available to nonprofits. We heard a lot about the usual suspects — Google Apps, MySpace and...