Hi folks, it’s getting late on a Sunday and I’m coming down from the high of seeing a super-fun band with great stage presence and mad musicianship last night — Super Diamond, the finest Neil Diamond cover band that could possibly...
Also published on HuffingtonPost This week’s news that Obama’s 2012 campaign has already assembled a powerful army of small online donors — more than a million people have given him money so far, only half of whom did so in 2008...
Update: Charles Lenchner sends over an overview of recent Occupy-related technology, and c.f. the earlier Epolitics.com roundup. Update II: Occupy Healthcare: Swapping Tents for Online Advocacy. Update III: Check out James Fallows’ excellent...
Update: Now with a title 50% funnier than the original! Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin…who was she again? Of course I’m being facetious, but look at the pattern of online discussion around the former next-President of the United States since...
Just launching today: VoterTide, which employs technology originally designed for the music industry and now being applied to politics. Journalists, bloggers and the rest of us can use the VoterTide’s basic version to follow the presidential...
Or at least, he will be soon. Yes, just a couple of hours after we here at Epolitics.com made fun of his overpriced website/CRM system again, it turns out that Newt Gingrich is soon to launch “‘Newt Hampshire!‘, a social media...
Update: Only hours after this piece was published, the Gingrich campaign announced an upcoming New Hampshire-focused site based on the NationBuilder platform, which is good technology. Perhaps he’s learning! Newt’s back! Or so the polls...
Also published on HuffingtonPost With police crackdowns increasing and their physical encampments too-often attracting outright criminals looking for trouble, should Occupy Wall Street consider switching to a largely online existence? In mid...
Last week’s CampaignTech conference was great fun and educational all around, with good friends, good schmoozing and lots of interesting technology to learn about. One highlight: the live interviews conducted by InterCast Network, a company...
Busy times in the ol’ e.politics bunker! Last night’s DC Week panel was great fun — we had a terrific conversation and enjoyed some excellent questions from a packed house. Next up: a certain Barack Hussein Obama (of the 1600...