Also published on HuffingtonPost With police crackdowns increasing and their physical encampments too-often attracting outright criminals looking for trouble, should Occupy Wall Street consider switching to a largely online existence? In mid...
Killed alongside Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Aulaqi in Yemen by an American missile last week: Samir Khan, Aulaqui’s chief online communicator: Jarret Brachman, a counterterrorism expert and government consultant who analyzed Khan’s...
Update: See Kevin Bondelli’s reponse, #ColinDelanyIsRight About Hashtags. And, note that the original article turned ME into a hashtag. For an example of how the online communications ground is constantly changing under candidates’ feet...
Epolitics.com may have taken the last couple of weeks of summer off, but SOME people have more of a work ethic — among them regular contributor Beth Becker (@spedwybabs). Check out her latest treatise below, where she lays out Ten Commandments...
Also published on HuffingtonPost Drew Westen’s recent critique of Barack Obama’s presidency and Jonathan Chait’s devastating rebuttal raise a question for me: what matters more in politics, messaging or mechanics? In Westen’s...
Our own Beth Becker sent around an email earlier this week that she received from Manan Trevedi, a Democrat challenging Republican Jim Gerlach for the second time in a suburban Philadelphia congressional district: Dear Beth, Over the past week...
“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”Paul-Muad’dib to the Guild navigators, Dune, by Frank Herbert (1965) Variations on that line have been going through my head ever since the debt-ceiling debate cranked...
One of the more maddening stories (for a Democrat) that I read today? Coverage in US News’s Washington Whispers blog of an analysis from OhMyGov of Tweets submitted during yesterday’s Obama “Twitter Town Hall.” Maddening why...
Update: Watch the town hall live feed via Ustream at 2 pm Eastern on July 6th below. Glorious times for the internets! President Obama will take to Twitter tomorrow — kind of — to take questions from Us the People. I say “kind...
New Online Politics 101 chapter Twitter is the newest significant weapon in the online politics arsenal: while it was a very limited arena as recently as the 2008 elections (Barack Obama had all of 50,000 followers by Election Day!), it’s...