Sunday night I transferred my Google Reader information to Feedly — with only hours to go, the long list of digital-communications-related sites I’d signed up to follow was safe. But it was clear that the same couldn’t be said of...
Thanks Mr. Google! You’re killing off the channel through which about one-third of Epolitics.com loyalists access the site: as of Monday, Google Reader will be no more. Back in the far distant past, around 2005, we once had a vibrant bunch of...
You can attribute Silicon Valley’s success to any number of key factors: good universities, the availability of capital and a wealth of entrepreneurial experience are just a start. But without a talented pool of tech workers ready to jump to...
Rapid response in action! Within minutes of this morning’s Supreme Court decision striking down parts of the Voting Rights Act, while most analysts were still parsing it, this email landed in my inbox via the Democratic National Committee...
At one of this year’s many data-focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter-targeting technologies: that’s it’s less about the data itself, and more about...
A wonderful experience as always — I learned a ton, met great people and had fantastic times with folks I love. Thank you. BTW, here’s a little something I left behind for a few friends to wear: No I’m not the model; Amy sported it...
Albert will be very sad if you don’t “Like” this article At Netroots Nation this week, Brandon Silverman of CrowdTangle (a new social media monitoring tool) noted something interesting: people are much more likely to respond to...
Greetings from Netroots Nation! Yes, this week we get to whoop it up with a coupla thousand digitally oriented liberals, meeting folks and learning tons in the process. For an overview, check out the @epolitics twitter feed — I’ve been...
Hi folks, conference season is sprinting right along, with a few events still on the calendar before the midsummer lull. Tomorrow, for instance, I’ll be part of a 9 AM (ouch) discussion at C&E magazine’s annual “Art of...
With the protests in Turkey seeming set to continue despite Sunday’s clearing of Gezi Park (major trade unions have called for a strike on Monday), let’s look at a trend that a new friend (a Turkish national) pointed out a few days back...