With all the talk the last couple of weeks about the Kony 2012 video — including why it went viral — let’s go back a few months to Epolitics.com’s own contribution to the literature of virality, which broke 1000 views on...
Howdy folks, I’m back from SXSW and none the worse for wear, despite the best efforts of man, beast and beer. One story that almost slipped through the cracks while I was gallivanting about: ABCNews’s Amy Bingham picked up on the Super...
Patient: Reported on SXSW Music Festival Day 3 (of 4), overall SXSW Festival Day 8 Diagnosis: SXSW Syndrome Symptoms: Subject displays a wide array of SXSW-related symptoms. They include: perpetual squint, even with sunglasses on. Jeans worn three...
Today’s South By Southwest Interactive discussion on the Occupy movement as citizen journalism should be fascinating: I’m looking forward to a terrific discussion with Priscilla Grim, Kira Annika, Charles Wyble and Boyd Carter. Check out...
I’ve heard from three different people today that they’ve suddenly ended up on Rick Santorum’s email list — WITHOUT signing up or opting in. In one case, the address (and the name associated with it) were only used to sign up...
ProPublica has tried to reverse-engineer an Obama fundraising email, different versions of which went to a husband and wife: Sinker and his wife weren’t the only ones to receive similar but subtly different emails from the Obama campaign...
From our friends at FlackCheck.org, a new organization spun off from FactCheck.org that looks at political advertising: Not bad at all! Musical numbers ain’t easy, and illustrating the ad trends this way is a lot more compelling than some dry...
Howdy folks, South by Southwest is coming up fast, and I’m getting completely psyched for our panel discussion on the Occupy movement as citizen journalism. Two of our four panelists were involved on the media side of Occupy Wall Street, while...
It really started with an image: The all-male, clerical-heavy line-up was speaking before Rep. Darrell Issa’s House hearing on the Obama administration’s new policy requiring contraceptive coverage in new health insurance policies, with...
Wow, here’s a striking number from Kate Kaye at ClickZ: Online ad spending by President Obama’s reelection campaign has reached over $8 million. When combined with web ad spending by the Democratic National Committee, the number tops the...