Meet the OPOs (Online Political Operatives). A bit of a puff piece, but it does give an overview of who’s working for whom and how they fit into campaign structures. Bivings on Bidding for President(ial Google ads): The Democrats and The...
This weekend, Lawrence Lessig and others reported that CNN will release the footage of two upcoming presidential debates for use by the public, in a victory for information freedom and citizen-generated content. Lessig and compatriots in the...
Something else hit me about the digital rights protest song “Oh Nine, Eff Nine” — as a social phenomenon, it’s both inextractably embedded in the structure of a new medium AND a continuation of a tradition that’s...
I just a call from Waldo Tibbetts, formerly the online ad sales guru at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, who’s resigned his Post gig this week to take a position at The Politico. The new publication has already stirred up the Washington...
What is this man singing about? What is that bizarre string of numbers and why is it printed on candy hearts? If you haven’t been following the recent saga of the online crusade to distribute the magic code used to crack hi-def video disks...
[Update: My dad just reminded me that he had essentially the same idea as MapLight…about 11 years ago. Always ahead of your time, eh? Wait until I tell these kids about your open-source machine tool project — that’ll blow some minds...
Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death. The end of milblogging? Just as YouTube lines up to be the next threat to military discipline. But wait! There’s more…U.S. Military Uses YouTube to Get Its Story Out (nice outflanking...
An article posted yesterday in Micropersuasion has caught my eye — Google and other homepage/portal providers are desperate to get users to customize their personal pages (which Google just renamed “iGoogle”), yet most users are...
[Update: More media coverage and some Obama damage control below.] Micah Sifry posted a fascinating analysis last night of the Obama campaign’s takeover of a formerly volunteer-run MySpace site for the candidate, complete with dueling...
In a move with implications for any organization or campaign using the site for video hosting, YouTube will begin experimenting with video advertising as soon as this summer, according to Red Herring: The video-sharing site that was acquired by...