Cross-posted on techPresident The Democratic National Committee continued their consistently excellent use of an email list today with a message keyed to local political organizing: Our organizing plan for 2008 has one critical component: you. Next...
Michael Bassik reports today in techPrez about some changes to Facebook that should make it a much better platform for political organizing. Specifically, by January, the “success penalty” for building a large Facebook Group should...
Washington Post online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas wrote over the weekend on the Obama campaign’s use of niche social networking sites for voter outreach: And as of Friday, he’s the first candidate to have profiles on...
I’m just back from traveling through Texas and Louisiana, and it’s always great to come home to an article as full of fun as this one: New Scientist reports from an e-crime summit in Pittsburg that in the coming years, “voters will...
E.politics will be on temporary hiatus this week — I’m off to New Orleans for a little manual labor at the St. Bernard Project, a rebuilding nonprofit started by a couple of friends who moved down to Louisiana from Our Nation’s...
Here’s yet another Google foray into the world online advocacy: the company is allowing nonprofits to create special channels within YouTube that should help them spread the word about their issues. Some details about what advocacy groups can...
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a good parody — especially one that mixes legislative politics with just the right amount of sleaze. In this case, to highlight provisions in the just-signed College Cost Reduction and Access...
Amy Schatz continues her consistently excellent coverage of online politics for the Wall Street Journal today with an article on how local candidates are benefitting from the explosion of online fundraising: Presidential candidate John Edwards has...
Hi y’all, after spending about 18 very exciting hours yesterday exploring Our Nation’s transportation infrastructure (note: airports suck), I’m finally ensconsed deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas. The pre-trip work frenzy is...
A colleague passed along this little gem from an email message yesterday: “IEER’s comments on the DOE’s NOI to prepare EIS on Disposal of GTCC LLRW are now posted on the web at….” Apparently, this translates to...