With all the Twitter-versy going on these days it’s hard to know which 140-character summary to read, but two pieces currently on Slate are a great place to start. First, try Farhad Manjoo’s very measured take on why you should not feel...
SOMETHING’S being organizing in the small Eastern European country of Moldova, but there seems to be some disagreement over the “how” part. Some press coverage (particularly this Evgeny Morozov piece on ForeignPolicy.com, which the...
Well, look what happens when e.politics goes off the grid for a couple of days: the kids get all crazy over their Twitter. Jon Pincus started the conversation yesterday with a reply to the Twitter-is-not-a-strategy e.politics piece from last week:...
Cross-posted on techPresident A classic observation from the early days of online marketing: a website is NOT a strategy. I.e., when you ask the client what they’re trying to do online, and they reply that they have a website — which is...
One quick observation from the Fem2.0 conference — during the current plenary session, a six-person panel discussion, the organizers are displaying the event’s Twitter feed (#fem2) on a screen behind the panelists. The benefit is that it...
One of the more noteworthy developments in the online politics world over the past six months has been the enthusiastic embrace of the micro-blogging tool Twitter by conservative activists, particularly after the “Dontgo” movement this...
Here at e.politics, we may cling to our victrolas, our morse code and our Windows XP, but some people in the online world look a little farther ahead. For instance, along with co-founder Marc Andreessen, Gina Bianchini at Ning has been working since...
What do we mean when we say that something on the internet is “viral?” I ask because the word shows up in such different contexts that people don’t always seem to be talking about the same thing. If you’re in the...
Cross-posted on techPresident An online politics wrap-up article by Jose Antonio Vargas published in the Post this weekend has been working its way through the internet politics crowd over the past couple of days, being posted on Facebook, forwarded...
Purges are never pretty, but I just conducted one — and the results were a surprise. When I signed up for Twitter last Spring, I figured I’d go ahead and reciprocally subscribe to updates from just about anyone who subscribed to mine...