Fascinating article in Slate today about the use of political campaign tactics to build demand for Michael Moore’s new film about health care in America, Sicko: The Weinstein Company, Sicko’s distributor, has hired a Democratic...
You might have missed it, since the article was in the Style section instead of among the political news, but Philip Kennicott wrote in Tuesday’s Washington Post about a fascinating Radio Free Europe report on the Iraqi Sunni...
Late addition: Community Counts: Real Participation in the Debates. People are stepping up and fixing the problems with YouTube’s debate video process. Why MySpace is for freaks and Facebook is for preps. I KNEW I felt out of place on...
Mother Jones has an excellent series of articles about online politics in its July issue, now online. Each article is flanked by sidebar quotes from folks in the field ranging from Howard Dean to Esther Dyson to friends-of-e.politics Mike Cornfield...
Cross-posted on techPresident. Toward the end of last week, the John Edwards campaign pulled off a bit of a technological coup — they got around the inherent limits of raising money via cell phone text message. But here’s the rub: the...
I’ll be up in Silver Spring today, schmoozing and taking notes at the Digital Media Conference. Should be all nerd-cool and stuff. (Update: it was.)
– cpd
A few weeks ago, I put out a request for vendors that create sites using Drupal or Joomla, specifically focusing on progressive campaigns and nonprofits. Here are the results, with the most-suggested two companies first and the others in the order...
In addition to launching a public policy blog, Google is also staffing up its Washington lobbying operation, according to Frank Davies at the San Jose Mercury News. The company is focusing on defending its actions in China, using the regulatory...
See below for today’s non-presidential Quick Hits. Late addition! RNC snags Yahoo! exec for Web operation. Philip de Vellis has an analysis at techPresident. Christmas With the Romneys: The irresistible creepiness of Mitt’s new home...
When Quick Hits Attack! So much is going on this week that I’m splitting Quick Hits into a Presidential Edition and everything else: Where Have All The E-Mails Gone? It’s all fun and games until someone gets subpeoned. Hackers in...