Hey y’all, don’t miss out on the OneWebDay fun today: in DC, there’ll be a time capsule burial in the late morning and a happy hour at Tryst (Adams Morgan) after work. You’ll have to dig a hole/have a drink without me, though...
Cross-posted on K Street Cafe A tough question came up in a conversation with a visiting group of Danish communications professionals last week — how do you actually measure the effectiveness of social media outreach? At that moment, the...
Who says you can’t mix beats and rhymes with clean design and standards-based site construction — check out the video below from Design Coding, the Poetic Prophet and SEO Rapper. Has to be the most concise presentation on good site...
“Fun” and “Microsoft” are two words rarely found in the same sentence, but here we are: in an entirely unselfish attempt to help candidates afraid that they’ll join Sarah Palin in having their email accounts hacked, the...
Hey kids, September 22nd is One Web Day, and you know what that means! Well, not much yet, since the ‘net’s “Earth Day equivalent” is only hitting its third anniversary this year and hasn’t had time to pick up many...
Damn kids, I just can’t seem to shake them off, and at the moment neither can the American political system. Want to know more about the upcoming generation of political activists? Today’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable focuses on their...
Update: Barack Obama Uses Google to Combat Vicious Rumors. Via Dan Lipman. Update: Palin Attuned More to Public Will, Less to Job’s Details. Note her questionable(?) use of email advocacy as governor. New viral email: Sarah Palin is annointed...
I just went into a live online database via PHPMyAdmin and deleted 22,000 spam comments from a client’s WordPress blog all at once. That’s the first actual database operation I’ve ever done! Scary, even with a backup. Not that I...
Slate’s “Map the Candidates” has been around since the primaries, but it’s still a great example of a simple idea that’s nonetheless revealing — just a straightforward Google Maps interface that lets you see where...
First my lawn and now the internets, the damn kids are everywhere nowadays I tell you what. A menace! With their hippity hop and their Facebooks and their constant use of the word “like” as a conjunction, I can’t hardly make sense...