Cross-posted on techPresident. By many accounts, Republican candidate Ron Paul has become an online political phenomenon: despite polling in the low single digits nationally, as of today he has more Facebook supporters than McCain, more MySpace...
Will Fred Thompson be an Internet Campaign Innovator? Alan Rosenblatt says, guilty as charged. Ol’ Fred had better do somethin’ right quick: For GOP, Gen Next is becoming Gen Gone (a Burt Edwards suggestion). Ron Paul to the rescue...
After a hard week of online politics, you deserve two minutes of bliss:
(Via Reel Pop)
– cpd
Hi folks, time for a quick plug for some upcoming events of note: Looking a few weeks off, the Digital Media Conference will descend upon the AFI Theater in Silver Spring on June 22nd. It’s apparently “a ‘must-attend’ event...
In a techPresident column posted yesterday evening, Nancy Scola raised some excellent questions about MySpace’s plans to offer political campaigns new fundraising tools, including ones designed to allow supporters to raise money on behalf of a...
Cross-posted at techPresident Inspired by the May 16th e.politics/techPresident article on the conspicuous lack of presidential campaign widgets, a group of software developers has started to build their own — if the campaigns won’t help...
The folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute must be beside themselves with glee this morning: the Post has discovered their underwear. To highlight what they’re portraying as misguided regulation of washing machines, the CEI is urging...
Pre-holiday catching-up-with-the-blogs edition, carefully selected for easy beach reading. Much discussion of Facebook’s new Platform application. Todd Zeigler and The Good Doctor Rosenblatt think it’s a potential game-changer, but Donna...
“We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress, and with all our sophistication, we are the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock…of future shock.” Start with: a base of early ’70s...
To toss you guys a final morsel from last weekend’s PDF unConference, Josh Levy led a great discussion of activism in Second Life, using as a starting point a short documentary he created. The film itself is an excellent introduction to Second...