Wow, a little anniversary slipped by last month without acknowledgement: Epolitics.com launched in its modern incarnation six years ago as of July 17th (for those of a historical bent, here are the first few posts from soon after launch). To...
If you have some connection to the online organizing tool NationBuilder, you probably got the email printed below, which alleges “harassment” of the company’s political customers by rival NGP VAN. NGP’s response to the...
It’s hard to believe that just a few months ago a bunch of us online political nerds were camped out in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, an experience that damn near killed your Loyal Editor. Besides the audio recording of our...
Hi folks, here’s a quick update on the latest Epolitics.com e-book, How Campaigns Can Use the Internet to Win in 2012: as of this morning, it had been directly downloaded 3243 times! And of course, that number doesn’t include any...
Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Elections article is up, and it looks at some critiques of the new trend toward using online ad networks to target individual voters through online “cookies.” As we’ve seen, online political...
Daniel Kreiss, a professor in the school of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC, just put out a new book that examines the adoption of digital technologies by the political Left in the U.S.: My new book, Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of...
Hey kids! Tonight (Tuesday) I’m speaking at a Progressive Tech Meetup/happy hour at Public Bar. The subject? People-Powered-Politics, with a focus on how digital organizing can help us counter the wave of big-donor money that’s flowing...
Update: a good discussion about this article has been taking place on Facebook. Guest article! A little discussion blew up over on the Progressive Exchange listserv this week, with some folks less-than-pleased that NationBuilder‘s being used...
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...
Screwing up a web project isn’t hard — I’ve done it a time or two myself in 15-odd years in the field. Screwing up a web project in truly epic style? THAT can take some effort. Fortunately, Elana Levin and Aaron Welch have our...