At today’s Wiki White House at Google (also sponsored by the New America Foundation and Wired), Ellen Miller made a great point: as far as government information goes, “public” information should ultimately mean...
Paper is my nemesis — it lives in poorly organized stacks on too many horizontal surfaces in my life. Much as I hate how it smothers the desk, paper is still an offline tool that marketers shouldn’t ignore, even in a digital era. For...
Getting back to writing has been the most difficult part of recovering from the holidays — it’s felt a little like the HAL shut-down sequence from 2001 in reverse, only slower and requiring more caffeine. Design work started first, since...
First major decision of the New Year: where to spend Inauguration night. Sure, there’ll be plenty of great parties over the long weekend, but the one I REALLY can’t wait for is The Art of Change, a 1000-person Inauguration ball arranged...
Cross-posted on techPresident An online politics wrap-up article by Jose Antonio Vargas published in the Post this weekend has been working its way through the internet politics crowd over the past couple of days, being posted on Facebook, forwarded...
Last article from the GW media school post-election panel discussion, I promise. We’ve already heard from Joe Rospars on the Obama campaign’s use of online video, along with NBC’s Chuck Todd on the future of corporate journalism...
What’s the deal with Barack Obama and cigarettes? Despite a pre-campaign promise to Michelle, he still apparently relishes the occasional drag, and plenty of moralists would like to see him quit. Most recent case: CBN’s David Brody on...
Merry Christmas! The turkey’s still in the oven, but these links are ready to serve. Ari Melber: Obama for America 2.0?. Plane Crash Kills GOP Internet Consultant. A cell-phone modification for on-the-spot disease detection and monitoring, via...
Cross-posted on techPresident A week or two ago, I happened to catch the C-Span broadcast of a fascinating discussion at Harvard’s Kennedy School — PBS’s Gwen Ifill moderated a panel including David Axelrod and David Plouffe from...
The Campaign 2008 discussion at GW’s School of New Media and Public Affairs earlier this month covered a lot more than just the importance of video in the Obama online machine: among other topics, the panel of experienced journalists...