The Sunlight Foundation is sponsoring a contest to encourage people to present interesting Congressional data using modern online tools, with entrants being “judged on their creativity and how effectively they share information about Congress...
National Journal’s Heather Greenfield has put together an excellent article looking at Google’s use as a political tool, which Danny Glover reprinted yesterday in Beltway Blogroll. MyDD’s 2006 political Google bombing attempt got...
Hey, I just installed a WordPress plug-in that pops up a little window to preview sites that e.politics links to. The link itself won’t call up the preview, only the little icon that follows the link, and it’s turned off for internal e...
Australian Priscilla Brice-Weller has written up another cool use of maps for advocacy purposes, in this case to encourage the transition from incandescent light bulbs to compact flourescents (which are much more energy-efficient). The Yahoo...
New report: Congressional Web sites ‘disappointing’. Apparently, they’re nicely representative of the institution as well. Yet More Evidence of a Peaking Blogosphere. Ohmigod, The Hour Of Our Doom is at hand — we face a...
Tia Sumler’s article from last week (Five Must-Dos When You’re Planning A Web Project) has just been chosen as the lead story in this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Very cool! It was an excellent article, well-written...
War breaks out in Second Life! It’s all fun and games until someone nukes a Reebok store (via Slate). The (online) violence continues as the Post goes into depth about the blogger/Tauscher war (which Hotline picked up before Christmas). New...
Guest article! Tia Sumler, an old friend and the web guru at civilrights.org, has plumbed the depths and scaled the heights of her experiences with online projects and put together a list of things that you just might oughta do when you’re...
Earlier today, while looking through a social media article at iMedia Connection, I came across a link to a Lakshmi Chaudhry piece in The Nation from a few weeks ago in which she takes some serious potshots at the new culture of online collective...
Woo ha! It’s less than a month before the annual gathering-of-the-tribe known as the Politics Online Conference, and you’d better be planning to go or you’re really gonna miss out. Last year’s conference gave me the idea to...