Politics attracts weirdos. Sure, it also attracts plenty of earnest, responsible activists and public servants, but it brings in more than its share of fringe actors — if you’ve ever hung out with a Birther or a 9/11 Truther...
Update: As I was writing this piece, ANOTHER Emily’s List email hit my inbox…supporter-mobilization in action. Some of those crazy kids on the Right have been having fun lately…at least, what THEY consider fun. First up:...
The Hill reported this morning on a fascinating development in the internal Republican war over the strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to “defund” Obamacare: Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio...
Time to mark a technological changing of the guard: Indians have sent their last telegrams. After today, a medium that knitted the subcontinent together in the days before broadband and mobile phones will be no more: On July 14, the last for the...
Sunday night I transferred my Google Reader information to Feedly — with only hours to go, the long list of digital-communications-related sites I’d signed up to follow was safe. But it was clear that the same couldn’t be said of...
You can attribute Silicon Valley’s success to any number of key factors: good universities, the availability of capital and a wealth of entrepreneurial experience are just a start. But without a talented pool of tech workers ready to jump to...
At one of this year’s many data-focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter-targeting technologies: that’s it’s less about the data itself, and more about...
Since I started spreading the word a few weeks back that I was launching a digital strategy business, plenty of people have come to me with a single question: just what IS digital strategy? A simple question, for sure, but one with an answer...
Guest article! The inimitable Beth Becker returns to our pages to muse about developments in the social ‘net that’ll matter to online communicators in the year to come. My (irreverent) comments are included as (ed notes) in the text...
Our friend Ben Donahower (last seen on Epolitics.com writing about online opposition research) published a nice overview of the Best and Worst of Campaign 2012 on Campaigns & Elections a couple of weeks back, which included observations from...