The Facebook Freedom Fighter: Wael Ghonim’s day job was at Google. But at night he was organizing a revolution. C.f. video of his TED presentation. Tech Revolutionaries: The Arab Revolt shows that Google’s and Twitter’s corporate...
Watch and learn, as history moves from tragedy to farce in real time: (Wow, that was quick — just a couple of hours after an online greeting card company posted clips of a fake Muammar Gaffafi that you could place in a message to a...
Lots of folks have been having some good, clean fun diving into the details of the recent phone exchange between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Ian Murphy, a blogger posing as Tea Party financier and liberal bogeyman David Koch. The individual...
See also the recent list of articles relevant to the internet’s role in Egypt, Tunisia and the general unrest in the Arab world. Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. Bogus trend piece alert! An article whose content contradicts...
The current election cycle’s potential Republican candidates for president may be a little slow out of the gate, but past aspirants to the nation’s highest post haven’t been so shy. So on this, our nation’s day to celebrate...
Howdy y’all, Tuesday’s Digital Politics Radio discussion on the internet and social media’s role in Egypt and Tunisia is now online; check it out below (my interview is segments 3 and 4). For more on the topic, check out the list...
Update: New stories added 3/8/2011 As mentioned earlier, I’ll be on Digital Politics Radio at 3:30 Eastern this afternoon to discuss the role of the internet and social media in the North African revolutions. In addition to Epolitics...
E.politics is taking to the airwaves today! Well, the virtual airwaves — I’ll dropping in to chat with Karen Jagoda on her Digital Politics Radio show, broadcast live on WS Radio from 3-4 Eastern time today. I’ll be on the 3:30...
A great observation from Jason Lefkowitz at Sunday’s Organizing 2.0 conference in NYC — while we may all want to be magic and unique individuals on our own, and every nonprofit is special to its mother, following that logic when it comes...
This week’s theme: A Farewell to Mubarak. Digital revolutionaries change Arab region, via @alvarolins, and Social Media Networks & Opposition Politics in Egypt. Plus, Anatomy of a revolution: Meet the young Egyptian activists who started...