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...
Welcome back — sorry about the hiatus. Just to update you guys, the new e.politics bunker is now purchased and vast renovations have begun that will soon turn it into a vital nerve center for the observation of online politics (i.e., I’m...
So here we are in late October of 2007, 15 months after the launch of e.politics. On the East Coast, Fall is slowly, belatedly settling in — the sky darkens early now, the leaves show signs of withering, and the mind naturally turns to...
The San Francisco NetSqared group got a great overview of Google Earth’s potential for online advocacy communications on October 9th, courtesy of Google Earth project manager Steve Miller. Two audience members have written the presentation up...
I’ve never been entirely satisfied with the comment policy on this site, so let’s take this fine Fall morning to make an arbitrary executive decision. The problem is that because of comment-spam, and despite a good spam filter, enough...
Cross-posted on techPresident A chat I had with a couple of folks from Radio Singapore International this weekend called up something that’s been playing around in my head for a while now: the idea that we’re seeing the birth of a host...
I’ve been looking for a good reason to return to last week’s question of online political etiquette, and fortunately commenter Ron Goodwine provided an excellent excuse when he left this note yesterday on the original original e.politics...
News arrived via Katrin Verclas today that online advocacy provider Convio (which recently ingested competitor GetActive) is opening itself up to the wider world of online advocacy. According to the company’s Open Initiative site, Convio is...
Interesting move: Google has stopped publication of a political campaign’s search ads that used MoveOn.org as a hook. According to The Examiner, The ads banned by Google were placed by a firm working for Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ re...