Remember that Twitter op-ed piece I wrote a couple of months ago? Let’s take a deeper look at it now that a little time has passed and see what we can learn, since writing a column for the newspaper is a time-honored way to influence the...
Time for that rare moment in this business, when you actually get to unveil a project that’s been in development for months. In this case, the International Biochar Initiative’s new online home is also my first site built using Drupal...
Speaking of The Good Doctor Rosenblatt and continuing the week’s apparent emphasis on elections and their aftermath, let’s vote again, this time for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of the Internet and Politics. Alan’s...
Alan Rosenblatt has unearthed a most fascinating artifact: a guide to online activism produced by a white supremicist in the days before the World Wide Web was all that wide. Alan ran across it in the late 1990s and recently found it again, and...
I surrender! I surrender! The e.politics inbox has been besieged by messages like this one over the past few days: Late Sunday night, eight superheroes announced their candidacy for DC Mayor. The brains behind these campaigns are New Organizing...
Well, Sarah Palin’s sure given the political class something to chatter about this week, but what impresses me is that she’s apparently managed not to hold a job for longer than a year or two throughout most of her professional life...
Clearing the proverbial cache, of a few stories that have stuck on the list over the past few weeks. It Came from Wasilla. Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin — w/o it, her July 3rd press conference is incomprehensible (with...
Cross-posted on techPresident For now, the nascent revolution in Iran seems to have stalled. With its leaders in hiding and the government trumpeting “confessions” from organizers and journalists, I can only imagine how Iranians hoping...
Whew, it’s good to have that little article series about the Obama campaign done — except that it’s not quite. I wrote those six pieces over a period of four months, and they do need a few changes before I’m completely...
It’s a classic promotional tactic, online or off: see a story in the news, figure out a connection to your issue no matter how remote, and try to use it as a hook to get extra exposure. When the potential news angle involves a scandal, though...