Cross-posted at techPresident Inspired by the May 16th e.politics/techPresident article on the conspicuous lack of presidential campaign widgets, a group of software developers has started to build their own — if the campaigns won’t help...
The folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute must be beside themselves with glee this morning: the Post has discovered their underwear. To highlight what they’re portraying as misguided regulation of washing machines, the CEI is urging...
Pre-holiday catching-up-with-the-blogs edition, carefully selected for easy beach reading. Much discussion of Facebook’s new Platform application. Todd Zeigler and The Good Doctor Rosenblatt think it’s a potential game-changer, but Donna...
“We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress, and with all our sophistication, we are the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock…of future shock.” Start with: a base of early ’70s...
To toss you guys a final morsel from last weekend’s PDF unConference, Josh Levy led a great discussion of activism in Second Life, using as a starting point a short documentary he created. The film itself is an excellent introduction to Second...
A Monday night segment on viral video on NPR’s Marketplace got me thinking: are we really ready for the sheer volume of political video that’s going to be unleashed over the next 18 months? Think about it: when the presidential campaigns...
At Saturday’s PDF unConference, I caught a fascinating discussion led by Beka from the NotAnAlternative arts collective/production company about setting up street actions with an eye toward getting them the most online exposure possible. She...
Quick Hits is a harsh mistress, but I can ignore her no longer. Special Edition! When the bizarre meets the sublime, plus some scary stuff. Gen Y Reads More Print, Not Less, than Older Counterparts. Damn kids, quit hogging my magazines. Speaking of...
[Cross-posted at techPresident.] In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène...
Check out Jose Antonio Vargas’s article in today’s Post for a quick snapshot of the relative power of the presidential campaigns online, which is already stirring up a good bit of discussion online. Nothing in it will be shocking to...