If it’s midnight in Moscow, what time is it in Kentucky? Via PoliticalWire, the Democratic PAC American Bridge has launched an extension for the Chrome web browser that will automatically replace the words “Mitch McConnell” in any webpage with “Moscow Mitch”. Yes...
Read More »Strategic bombing, by a rebel group, via drone: welcome to the 21st century. Just today, we learned that Yemeni Houthi rebels planned and launched what was obviously a carefully targeted attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. The explosions and resulting fires at refinery or transport hubs have...
Read More »Hi folks, I’ve been exploring some easy livin’ post-Netroots, but even a fine summer slow must end sometime. Let’s start off running with an idea I wrote up for Campaigns & Elections a few weeks back: what new political tech firms are taking shape inside the plethora of...
Read More »Headed soon to a phone in your hands? Augmented reality advertising. First question? What does that even mean. As Christina Bonnington explains in Slate, commercial brands are already experimenting with ads designed to draw people into the world of their products via cellphone cameras: In your...
Read More »Digital politics isn’t the only obsession smoldering down here in the e.politics bunker: after talking with a couple of smart techie friends who are sincerely concerned about the rise of autonomous killing machines, in May I launched a new Twitter feed to track the use of drones in...
Read More »Epolitics.com contributor Deepak Puri has held executive positions at Oracle, Netscape and VMware, and is the founder of SkilledAnalysts.com, an IoT consulting firm, and co-founder of Democracy Labs, a non-profit hub in San Francisco that connects technical volunteers with progressive causes...
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