Cross-posted on techPresident Remember Mark Foley, the congressmember with the bad habit of indulging in salacious IM sessions with underage House pages? Lane Hudson, the guy who helped bring Foley’s political career to an end last Fall by...
My NET colleague Kymberly Escobar showed me a neat toy today — a video camera that’s designed for easy Internet connection, is about the size of a video Ipod and that costs about $100. She’s been using one to shoot videos of her...
As part of an excellent Tech Daily series that National Journal opened to non-subscribers today, one article looks at differences in the ways lower- and higher-tier presidential candidates use the web. You often hear that candidates can take more...
A front page story in today’s Post looks at the symptoms of a new malady afflicting the body politic: next year’s race for control of Congress is already running at a fever-pitch, at least in some areas, and we’re still more that...
The online advertising world is moving so fast that I can’t hardly keep up with it — just in the last few days, the MarketingVox e-newsletter has delivered a slew of stories that suggest new opportunities for campaigns and advocacy groups...
An excellent article on the Wild Apricot blog arrived ealier via a Google Alert — it’s an interview with Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the U.S. about using social networking sites for advocacy and fundraising. She and blog author...
Cross-posted on techPresident Earlier today, Josh linked to a piece on the excellent website Spot-on that finds a Democratic connection to the “Gays for Giuliani” video that came out (hah!) last week. Specifically, author Scott Olin...
Cross-posted on techPresident Just got an interesting email from the DNC asking me to…no, not to give money, but to send a thank-you note. (Paging Miss Manners…). Actually, it’s a clever idea, since constant begging for donations...
Inside the lobbying industry’s evolution. From hunter-gatherer to information-age filter/aggregator — a fascinating framework for analysis. Ron Paul: All the Rage in Paris. Liberté-rians? The Danger of Using YouTube Views as a Metric...
More news from the land of random widgetry: the Post’s The Fix column has its own RSS widget, which I just noticed today displayed in an advertising bubble between its first two stories. The other Post blogs I checked didn’t seem to...