I surrender! I surrender! The e.politics inbox has been besieged by messages like this one over the past few days: Late Sunday night, eight superheroes announced their candidacy for DC Mayor. The brains behind these campaigns are New Organizing...
Whew, it’s good to have that little article series about the Obama campaign done — except that it’s not quite. I wrote those six pieces over a period of four months, and they do need a few changes before I’m completely...
Update: As Obama’s speech looms, “Security agencies in Egypt ‘do not know what to do with connectivity’ — the ability of bloggers, Twitterers and Facebook users to share information and quickly assemble a crowd.”...
Okay, I’m a sucker for pitches like these, I admit it: “In response to Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the Supreme Court, mobile music site mSpot.com has pulled together a list of five (and certainly there are many more) ringtones...
Part Five of a six-part series Obama’s platform may have envisioned a grand reform of the political system, but the primary change he brought to political fundraising was to do more of it than anyone in history: 3 million donors made a total...
This in from friend and e.politics contributor Burt Edwards a few days back: OK, so it’s a slow Sunday morning and I’m doing my version of reading the morning paper (which for me is checking my regular papers online as well as a couple...
Hi y’all, I’m fixin’ to publish the first of what’s planned as a six-part series on the lessons of the Obama campaign for other online communicators, political and commercial. The second article will go live tomorrow...
The process of putting together a conference presentation for this Friday, while also planning out a series of articles on Obama campaign lessons, has yielded a nice side benefit: a list of articles about Obama’s presidential campaign and how...
New Year’s resolution! Time for some routine site maintenance — let’s bust out the dustrags and polish up the silverware, and maybe take out the trash on time for once. Unfortunately, E.politics Video has ended up on the dustbin of...
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...