PoliticsOnline and the World E-Gov Forum have posted their nominations for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics. Cast your vote today! Two friends of e.politics are nominated — Care2 and Alan Rosenblatt’s...
Is targeted direct mail the best way to tar an opponent while minimizing backlash? Today’s much-blogged-about Post article on GOP plans for negative campaigning in the Fall contains this nugget, which I’ll expand on: Direct-mail appeals...
A lot of Democrats are up in arms about ABC’s upcoming miniseries, “The Path to 9/11” — an email I got from the Democratic Party described it as “a bald-faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right before...
They sound like something out of a B-grade science fiction movie, but splogs are a serious danger to the use of blogs as a communications tool for politics or any other subject. What are they? Spam blogs, set up automatically and by the thousands...
Next Friday, September 15th, the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet is hosting a half-day seminar tied to the release of their latest publication, Person-to-Person-to-Person: Harnessing the Political Power of Online Social Networks...
The king is dead, and none among us is worthy of his throne. I’d never met him or even read his name until today, but his words have etched deep grooves in my mind, into which my ad copy has gratefully slipped: In Japan, the hand can be used...
He seems to be the first candidate to hold an event in an online virtual community, in this case Second Life. A full-on town hall will follow in the Fall. Gimmicky? Yep. But I bet it’ll gin up some attention — already, a CNN team was...
The Washington Post (or, properly, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive) is one news outlet that gets social media: they seem to truly understand the the benefits that come from being a part of the broader internet conversation as well as the ability...
Following up on last week’s manifesto about using databases for political microtargeting, Phil Lepanto from Connections Media has an exhaustive piece (his second on e.politics) about the mechanics of collecting and using data to identify...
Excellent article, and it hits on my current favorite theme, microtargeting. Subscription only, alas. Some critical quotes: “Though most political ad dollars traditionally are spent after Labor Day, tight primaries and early spending on House...