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...
Quick update: while we were lounging around the e.politics bunker on our recent publishing break, media calls just kept on a-comin’ in. The highlights: [NPR] Obama, Romney Campaigns Taking ‘See What Sticks’ Approach To Web Videos...
One reason Epolitics.com has been so quiet lately? The sweet lassitude of summer has sung its siren song for sure, but I haven’t yet succumbed — too many projects have demanded a delayed start to the season’s easy livin’. A...
Howdy folks, yes we are still alive down here in the e.politics bunker, despite all indications to the contrary — what with conferences, a day job and Campaigns & Elections demanding time, the site has had to take a back seat for too long...
Howdy folks, Epolitics.com is back from a short holiday and an accompanying publishing break. Sorry for the hiatus, but never fear: this year we’ll beat the summer heat with plenty of sweet digital politics goodness, including an upcoming pair...
Some of us in the online politics space have wondered what Obama 2012 would roll out to replace 2008’s MyBarackObama.com, and now we know: the Wall Street Journal has the scoop on the campaign’s new “Dashboard” grassroots...