When Quick Hits Attack! So much is going on this week that I’m splitting Quick Hits into a Presidential Edition and everything else: Where Have All The E-Mails Gone? It’s all fun and games until someone gets subpeoned. Hackers in...
11 Web Technologies Political Campaigns Should Consider. Virtual napalm not on list, tragically. More Blog Woes For John Edwards. Great idea! Let’s attack those bloggers. You know, the guys with free printing presses and unlimited ink. Are the...
The Shock of the New. What the history of the electric dynamo teaches about the future of the computer (we ain’t seen nothin’ yet). Related idea: It’s the Use, Not the Tech. Return of the Live Commercial. Another attempt to outwit...
What Kills a Social Media Campaign. Case studies of bitter failure. Amateur charge infuriates blogosphere. “Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys … are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity” (e.politics is proud to...
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...
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...
Quick Hits is a harsh mistress, but I can ignore her no longer. Special Edition! When the bizarre meets the sublime, plus some scary stuff. Gen Y Reads More Print, Not Less, than Older Counterparts. Damn kids, quit hogging my magazines. Speaking of...
Meet the OPOs (Online Political Operatives). A bit of a puff piece, but it does give an overview of who’s working for whom and how they fit into campaign structures. Bivings on Bidding for President(ial Google ads): The Democrats and The...
Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death. The end of milblogging? Just as YouTube lines up to be the next threat to military discipline. But wait! There’s more…U.S. Military Uses YouTube to Get Its Story Out (nice outflanking...
Eight Easy Steps To Internet Superstardom. Video tutorials from Jack Black and others — why not try a little humour to get your political points across? ABCNews.com Relaunches with Citizen Journalism. Also with new emphasis on video (and dreams...