Two recent stories by The Post’s Jose Antonio Vargas illuminate the vital connection between online and offline organizing. The first, written last week with Peter Slevin, focuses on voter turnout operations in Iowa and opens with this nugget...
Cross-posted on techPresident Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook contained this little gem today: The Edwards campaign has raised $1 million since Iowa, the fastest it has raised $1 million online during the campaign. He didn’t give a link...
Upcoming event of note, held at the end of this week in Manhattan and sponsored by Idealware and Aspiration: Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects (MNTP) will examine the tools and best practices that will help nonprofits deliver successful...
Cross-posted on techPresident Well, who was the big loser in the Iowa caucuses? It wasn’t Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton, and it certainly wasn’t Ron Paul. The big loser was political punditry. Note that I did not say “political...
Wired’s picked up on a new application called Glassbooth that helps match you with the presidential candidate whose positions are closest to yours. In clever fashion, it starts by asking which issues are most important to you and only then...
Welcome To The Iowa Caucuses, Viewed Online Through Grassroots Lenses. Can’t get enough Iowa? Let’s hang with the locals. Obama Girl, Britney Boy Top YouTube Videos. More significant: Obama Girl makes the AdRants Raciest Ads of the Year...
On the rationality of the Iowa Caucus system: “I’m not saying his refusal to take a photo with Mr. Potato Head doomed his campaign,” Green said of Brownback, who has withdrawn from the race. But who’s to say it didn’t...
At least one presidential candidate is not ashamed to count bloggers among his friends: according to Katharine Q. Seelye at The Times, Mike Huckabee held a little event here on Tuesday to thank the roughly 700 bloggers who, he said, were responsible...
Slate’s Trailhead column picked up a very fun feature on Mitt Romney’s site on Wednesday afternoon — enter your name and a friend’s name, and this interesting Flash application will record a phone message for him or her. The...
In a move to boost relations with the country’s Asian neighbors, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is now posting videos on YouTube — in English as well as Japanese. English is apparently widely used in Asia for cross-cultural...