Comments on: Eleven Years and Counting http://www.epolitics.com/2006/11/22/eleven-years-and-counting/ dissecting the craft of online politics and online advocacy Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:59:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Alan Roseblatt http://www.epolitics.com/2006/11/22/eleven-years-and-counting/#comment-5386 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:13:16 +0000 http://www.epolitics.com/2006/11/22/eleven-years-and-counting/#comment-5386 And the fact that I am writing and posting these comments on a bus on the NJ Turnpike makes it all complete. And the fact that I am writing and posting these comments on a bus on the NJ Turnpike makes it all complete.

]]> by: Alan Roseblatt http://www.epolitics.com/2006/11/22/eleven-years-and-counting/#comment-5385 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:11:21 +0000 http://www.epolitics.com/2006/11/22/eleven-years-and-counting/#comment-5385 Amen Colin! I share your thanks for the existence of this amazing field. I share your passion. 1995 puts epolitcs at the birth of the field. 1994-5 saw many firsts. Ted Kennedy (w/ the help of MITs AI lab and Chris Casey) launched the first Congressional website, Diane Feinstein launched the first candidate website, Steve Clift launched the first online issues forum (www.e-democracy.org). Vote-Smart launched its online voter resource, PoliticsNow/PoliticsUSA launched the first political new website, and I started teaching the first university course on Internet politics at George Mason U. All in all, it was a very exciting time offering great promise for enabling all citizens to exercise their politcal power. Now, with blogs driving a lot of the political debate, hundreds of millions of emails sent by tens of millions of citizens to Congress, social networks boosting civil society, and millions of political dollars and volunteers being raised and organized online. we truly have much tol be thankful for. Amen Colin! I share your thanks for the existence of this amazing field. I share your passion.

1995 puts epolitcs at the birth of the field. 1994-5 saw many firsts. Ted Kennedy (w/ the help of MITs AI lab and Chris Casey) launched the first Congressional website, Diane Feinstein launched the first candidate website, Steve Clift launched the first online issues forum (www.e-democracy.org). Vote-Smart launched its online voter resource, PoliticsNow/PoliticsUSA launched the first political new website, and I started teaching the first university course on Internet politics at George Mason U.

All in all, it was a very exciting time offering great promise for enabling all citizens to exercise their politcal power.

Now, with blogs driving a lot of the political debate, hundreds of millions of emails sent by tens of millions of citizens to Congress, social networks boosting civil society, and millions of political dollars and volunteers being raised and organized online. we truly have much tol be thankful for.

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