Ah, 2007: today’s robust social web was a gleam in Zuckerberg’s eye, and blogging still had the allure of a new and mysterious technology. Also in that year, Mitt Romney first ran for president, dogged as always by accusations that he...
Smart use of email fundraising from the Daily Kos activism list today: they sent out a message this afternoon asking activists to support last-minute Get Out The Vote work on behalf of three separate several Democrats running for state legislature...
Just a day after celebrating our own first seven years online, it’s time to welcome a new website to the digital politics beat. Joe Fuld has been running a political consulting firm called The Campaign Workshop for a while now, and he’s...
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...
Update: Naturally, CNN’s headline mishaps have led to Twitter hijinks. So the Affordable Care Act is upheld! That’s great, but who won the internets? My nominee: SCOTUSblog, which at one point had 866,000 people simultaneously reading...
Howdy folks, one of our Epolitics.com contributors, Kayle Hatt, has launched his own digital politics/political commentary blog, so go check it out! He’s Canadian, the poor frozen bastard, so he’s writing (appropriately enough) at...
As Michigan and Arizona voters head to the polls to choose a Republican presidential candidate, the folks at Daily Kos hope that at least a few liberals will be among them. Why? Because they’ll vote for Rick Santorum, of course — that...
The earlier announcement of our Digital Capital Week panel reminded me that the CampaignTech conference is coming up fast — it starts Thursday, November 10th, which is now less than two weeks away. Get yer tickets now! Here are the details on...
Also published on The Huffington Post For more on social media and the Arab Spring, see the book “Distant Witness,” by Andy Carvin. Did Twitter and Facebook “cause” the Tunisian Revolution and the protests in Egypt? Not...