I’m not entirely sure how this happened, though it may have had something to do with the hundred-dollar bill I stapled to the application form, but e.politics has been chosen as one of three finalists in the “Best Blog — National...
DNC Launches Vote Builder. A lefty version of the voter vault? Definitely needed. And it comes as the Right tries to build its own Netroots equivalent. Two greatly contrasting takes on the power of young political activists: they’re getting...
Hey kids, the New Organizing Institute needs your brain — what do you think is Wired, Tired or Expired in the use of email lists, video, blogs, websites and social networking sites for advocacy? We’ve put together a simple online survey...
…if you’re an experienced online advocacy guru. The New Organizing Institute is looking for “guest consultants” to volunteer a couple of hours to work with one of the 50+ organizations (nice Google spreadsheet, Roz) that will...
YouTube creates channel for candidates’ video. It’s just a catch-all for existing pieces, but it does make comparisons easy. And it’s gotten lots of online attention. John McCain on YouTube and CHBN.com. Video commentary by...
The Sunlight Foundation is sponsoring a contest to encourage people to present interesting Congressional data using modern online tools, with entrants being “judged on their creativity and how effectively they share information about Congress...
National Journal’s Heather Greenfield has put together an excellent article looking at Google’s use as a political tool, which Danny Glover reprinted yesterday in Beltway Blogroll. MyDD’s 2006 political Google bombing attempt got...
Hey, I just installed a WordPress plug-in that pops up a little window to preview sites that e.politics links to. The link itself won’t call up the preview, only the little icon that follows the link, and it’s turned off for internal e...
Australian Priscilla Brice-Weller has written up another cool use of maps for advocacy purposes, in this case to encourage the transition from incandescent light bulbs to compact flourescents (which are much more energy-efficient). The Yahoo...
New report: Congressional Web sites ‘disappointing’. Apparently, they’re nicely representative of the institution as well. Yet More Evidence of a Peaking Blogosphere. Ohmigod, The Hour Of Our Doom is at hand — we face a...