“Never reinforce failure” — an old military adage that’s equally applicable in the world of Facebook advertising. Why? Because Facebook wants it that way. Here’s the deal: Facebook charges for advertising on a sliding...
Thought that headline might get your attention — and that’s no doubt what the House Democrats were hoping for when they put out the widget below (thanks to the legendary Alan Rosenblatt for sending over the link). My only critique? The...
Integrate or die: words seen on Epolitics.com before and for good reason, since standalone online campaigns rarely work as well as ones combined with concrete action in the physical world. For a good example of how the virtual can combine with the...
If Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward was “a political gift” to Democrats, as Rahm Emmanuel put it, the Dems are working to make sure that it’s a financial gift — and one that keeps on giving. After...
The oil spill may be an ongoing tragedy in the Gulf, but Louisiana’s coast was in danger of disappearing for a long time before the Deepwater Horizon well was a gleam in BP’s eye. For years, a combination of levees on the Mississippi...
One less-public side of the online politics world involves the blizzard of emails and texts that fly between political communications staff and reporters just about every day. The communicators’ goal: to influence reporting and shift the...
Also published on The Huffington Post On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here’s more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the...
One more bit of YouTube today, though this one’s audio-only rather than video: a rewrite of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” but this time with lyrics about the BP oil spill. Okay, the results might not be quite as funny as one...
My friend and long-ago college roommate Brad Terrell passed this mind-blowing piece of political video/advertising along the other day: Sheer genius! A gun, a horse, a hat and a Real Man for Alabama…one of the Finest pieces of video ever...
California, batten down the hatches and hide the children — the Demon Sheep is loose on the land again. And now he’s shearing the hand that once fed him, as this time it’s former patron Carly Fiorina wilting under his baleful...