Author - Colin Delany

A number of news outlets talk about the last-minute turnout game today, with Republican strategists touting the 72 Hour Project in a wire service article that ran in papers ranging from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to the Miami Herald. The database...

[Update: Mike Cornfield writes in to note that an expanded version of his and Lee Rainie’s article, complete with more predictions for the future, is available online at the Pew Research Center.] Ah, the good old days, back in the late...

The Post’s Outlook section ran two interesting pieces looking at online/electronic politics this weekend, one somewhat tongue-in-cheek and the other healthily contrarian. Let’s begin with Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu’s “YouTube...

Jeff Goldsmith over at Care2 has written up his experience promoting a side project on MySpace and offers some quite useful pointers. Adventures of a Dead Elephant on MySpace talks about an attempt to get viral takeoff for some downloadable graphics...

We’re almost there — months of plans, experiments, strategy and sweat come down to one final day. And of course, that one day comes down to turnout — who’s actually going to show up at the polls? Let’s imagine...

Nedra Kline Weinreich has a fascinating article about how the Centers for Disease Control is exploring Second Life as they look at ways social media can be used to promote public health. She interviews CDC Second Life representative John Anderton at...

At e.politics, I mostly talk about how organized campaigns and advocacy groups use technology to communicate and to organize, but we should never forget that the same tools are available to everyone with a computer or even a cell phone. For a recent...

K. Daniel Glover over at National Journal has a great look at political campaigns’ use of paid bloggers in this election cycle, using campaign finance records to name names and amounts. With increasing frequency, candidates across the country...