Cross-posted on techPresident. Toward the end of last week, the John Edwards campaign pulled off a bit of a technological coup — they got around the inherent limits of raising money via cell phone text message. But here’s the rub: the...
Google is diving into the public policy waters in a very, well, public way — the company has opened an internal policy blog to the public and will allow comments from readers. The initial burst of articles, previously published only for Google...
Damn, things move fast on the Interweb — yesterday’s “Crush on Obama” sound/video sensation is already available for download to your phone at RingTones08. Though it’s not my favorite clip on the site — check out...
E.politics passed a significant milestone this weekend, but it’s not one that I’m likely to celebrate: the site received its 100,000th spam comment. As of late January, six months after e.politics launched, only 20,000 fake comments had...
In a techPresident column posted yesterday evening, Nancy Scola raised some excellent questions about MySpace’s plans to offer political campaigns new fundraising tools, including ones designed to allow supporters to raise money on behalf of a...
A new study from the Pew Center for the Internet and Public Life finds that 36% of online Americans use Wikipedia, roughly half the time getting to the site from a search engine link. Better-educated folks and broadband users were more likely to...
Guest article! The inimitable Susan Finkelpearl of Free Range Studios has written up a Politics Online panel discussion on the promise of mobile technology as a tool for campaign organizing. Pull you up a chair and chew on THIS for a little while:...
YouTube creates channel for candidates’ video. It’s just a catch-all for existing pieces, but it does make comparisons easy. And it’s gotten lots of online attention. John McCain on YouTube and CHBN.com. Video commentary by...
National Journal’s Heather Greenfield has put together an excellent article looking at Google’s use as a political tool, which Danny Glover reprinted yesterday in Beltway Blogroll. MyDD’s 2006 political Google bombing attempt got...
Brian Fitzgerald of Greenpeace has written up a couple of ways his organization is using RSS and has allowed me to reprint his description here for e.politics groupies. Besides straightforward applications such as content distribution across a...