Time for our first beach-reading recommendation of the summer! One great pleasure of last month’s “Data-Crunched Democracy” conference was the chance to hang out with Daniel Kreiss, who’s written a must-read book on...
The latest news from the state of Massachusetts apparently shows a tightening race to replace John Kerry in the Senate. The White House is certainly acting like they believe it’s a real trend: they’re sending surrogates and working to...
Quick Hits returns, well rested and ready to rock. Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page Slam ‘Outrageous’ PRISM Reports, C’mon folks — THEY get to use our data for their own purposes. White House, House GOP trade three-word barbs over...
Howdy folks, I’m currently sitting in a hotel room in lovely Bucharest, Romania, tinkering with a presentation slide deck for the umpteenth time (they’re never done). Conference season is clearly in full force, and this week I’m...
At last week’s “Data-Crunched Democracy” conference, Obama 2012 Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani pointed out a real difference between the data political campaigns work with and what commercial marketers have at their fingertips: volume...
Good stuff dropped into the e.politics bunker today — a new nonprofit online video benchmarks report, put together by the folks at See3, YouTube and Edelman. I just pulled down my own PDF copy of “Into Focus: Benchmarks for Nonprofit...