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...
That’s what San Jose Mercury News reporter Matthew Artz asked me last week. The question comes up because other candidates have, including Bernie Sanders earlier this year and Barack Obama in 2012: Four years ago, Obama’s San Francisco...
A great observation from Jason Lefkowitz at Sunday’s Organizing 2.0 conference in NYC — while we may all want to be magic and unique individuals on our own, and every nonprofit is special to its mother, following that logic when it comes...
Remember the halcyon days of 2007, when presidential campaigns competed for the honor of Most Creative Campaign Kick-Off Announcement? Hillary did her business on YouTube, while Barack promoted his video announcement via email, and several of the...
Here in the Delany family, we’re generally not ones to think small — and my father is the prime example. An inveterate inventor who couldn’t stop playing with ideas if he tried, he’s come up with some fascinating tools that...
Open source, meet politics — the techies over at the Democratic National Committee have launched a new site devoted to sharing the results of their work. Nancy Scola has the details over at tPrez, and you can check out Open.Dems for yourself...
Also published on The Huffington Post On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here’s more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the...
On the eve of the Politics Online Conference, and after some time thinking about the broader political and media landscape over the last few days, let’s ask a big question — what’s next? I.e., what’s the next major...
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...
Ah, sweet technology — a few weeks ago, the RSS feed for e.politics started acting a little weird. I use Google/Feedburner to distribute and track RSS subscriptions, and back in mid-August, the stats suddenly quit updating, making it...