The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it. So much for an informed electorate. Update: A post-referendum “Remain” petition apparently crashed the British Parliament’s petition site...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns. Note that I’m keeping Bernie Sanders on the list until he formally drops out, in part because it’s interesting to watch his messaging...
Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give...
God is on the side of the big battalions, or so I hear. Photo via the National Archives. The announcement was essentially inevitable, but let’s still take note: Hillary Clinton can now tap the 20 million-odd supporter email addresses that...
First things first: Periscope may be just over a year old, but live-streaming video isn’t exactly new: I remember being at events broadcast via (now-defunct) Qik more than half a decade ago. And, we first explored the basics of using Periscope...
The Hill’s Jessie Hellman reports: The Donald Trump campaign sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day. That request follows a multimillion-dollar...
Great observation from Mark Hmmer, via The Daily 202: The genius of the Trump Clinton Twitter war of 2016 is that it consumes Trump's every waking minute & Clinton doesn't know it's happening. — Mark Hammer (@markhammer1987)...
Update: Orlando shooter inspired by Islamic extremist information shared online, President Barack Obama says. Update: Orlando shooting exposes Donald Trump’s biggest weakness: A total lack of empathy. Tweets from the Id. Update: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! Of note this time: a near-sweep by one candidate. Guess who? The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don’t agree on much: perhaps the only things they have in common besides being classified as Homo sapiens are their personal ambition and a profound aversion to having the press mucking around in their business...