Email attack: White House resists FOIA requests, and who can blame them after reading FEMA’s Katrina-related messages (Highlight: Juxtaposing “I Am a Fashion God” with “I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the...
Well, they’re not actually competing directly for anything other than our attention, but both Mitt Romney and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have launched campaigns lately to leverage the creative power of their supporters...
Writing in Salon, Glenn Greenwald hits on an aspect of the Larry Craig story that ought to raise questions about the intellectual honesty of certain segments of the right-wing blogworld — the vast disparity between many authors’ comments...
Wow, here’s a wild one to end the week with: The California National Guard has placed on leave the personal assistant to its top general and started an investigation after questions were raised about a Web site he maintains that advocates mass...
Cross-posted on techPresident I hate to agree with Jonah Goldberg on anything, but… Okay, it’d be an exaggeration to say that I side with his recent LA Times op-ed about online politics, but I agree that the rise of the political...
Okay, this one’s weird even for me — scandal has gripped the Fishbowl D.C.’s Third Annual Hottest Media Types competition, with widespread vote fraud proven to have tipped the results. A vicious swarm of vote-bots, created and...
Users’ Online Time Spent Mostly on Content – Not Communications, Commerce. Content is king! Tech Savvy Protesters take on China, but when is it appropriate to spam the Great Firewall? Social networks not just for kids, as Boomer site...
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...