In the New York area and looking for something interesting next weekend? Check out Organizing 2.0, “a grassroots-led conference of social justice organizers primarily from labor and the community organizing world.” I’ll be a...
A few stories to be thankful for: Where Obama is Losing Support. Turns out, crossover Republicans are souring on him, not independents. The Perils of Texting (oopsie!) Online Advertising In The U.S Begins To Stabilize. White House video team readies...
Last week, a brief tempest in a teapot brewed up when Barack Obama mentioned in a townhall on his China trip that he’d never used Twitter himself. The whole thing blew by pretty quickly, largely since I doubt that too many people were...
Hi y’all, remember that little series on How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010? It’s been on hold for the past few weeks for various reasons; more on at least one of them soon. But with the first three chapters in the can...
Check out Jose Antonio Vargas’s HuffPo piece on Sarah Palin from last week when you get a chance — he’s got some great numbers on the kind of online attention she’s generating, currently more than Obama. Of course it makes...
Interesting email in from Campus Progress the other day — as part of a student loan reform campaign, they’re running ads both on cable and on the TV/video-viewing website Hulu. The email itself focuses on encouraging recipients to watch...
Here at e.politics, we’re happy to read things so you don’t have to — though in this case you should, because David Plouffe’s The Audacity to Win is well written and one hell of a glimpse into the strategy, tactics and...
Also published on techPresident Just off a conference call to promote Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s new (and so-far excellent) book about the 2008 race, which I’m currently about 3/4 of the way through — more about that...
Redistricting isn’t sexy: it involves numbers and maps, it’s wonky, and just thinking about it makes voters go to sleep. Which is immensely helpful to the politicians redrawing the lines every few years, because they know that almost no...
In his latest bid to Save The World, my father’s come up with a way that folks in the developing world can build their own local electrical generating systems. His invention is human-powered (using a treadle, like an old sewing machine) and...