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...
If you’re in the enviro advocacy world, you’re almost certainly familiar with the online magazine Grist, a widely read source of green news and commentary. To promote its coverage of the 2008 presidential candidates on the environment...
Hi y’all, e.politics is back on the case after a long summer weekend full of exciting adventures and interesting moral lapses — hope you didn’t miss us too much. Let’s catch up real quick with what’s been going on while...
Genius citizen video via techPresident and others — a gay New Yorker wants to “remind Rudy who he was when he was mayor and to let Republican primary voters have some idea on the man they’re voting for.” Micah Sifry describes...
With the Ames Straw Poll only days away, Republican presidential candidates are seizing the high ground in Iowa, according to Slate’s John Dickerson. For example, Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Sam Brownback are engaged in a multiround spat over...
Woe be unto you, iPhone fans, for Karl Rove is among your tribe: According to Farhad Manjoo at Salon, this new development fatally undercuts the spell of iPhone-coolness, and no sensible person could disagree. Apple stock-plunge in...
It’s too damn hot to write anything substantive. DARPA Chief: Titanium is the Next Internet. What’s next, after the networked battlefield? Internet Vote-Swapping Legal, Says 9th Circuit. Naderites, unite! Beautiful blogad. Henry Copeland...
Sunday’s fascinating Post profile of Fred Thompson’s wife Jeri contained a little glimpse of the Good Old Days of the early political Internet. Turns out, when they were first dating and her last name was still Kehn, she pitched him on a...