Sunday night I transferred my Google Reader information to Feedly — with only hours to go, the long list of digital-communications-related sites I’d signed up to follow was safe. But it was clear that the same couldn’t be said of...
You can attribute Silicon Valley’s success to any number of key factors: good universities, the availability of capital and a wealth of entrepreneurial experience are just a start. But without a talented pool of tech workers ready to jump to...
At one of this year’s many data-focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter-targeting technologies: that’s it’s less about the data itself, and more about...
Time for our first beach-reading recommendation of the summer! One great pleasure of last month’s “Data-Crunched Democracy” conference was the chance to hang out with Daniel Kreiss, who’s written a must-read book on...
The latest news from the state of Massachusetts apparently shows a tightening race to replace John Kerry in the Senate. The White House is certainly acting like they believe it’s a real trend: they’re sending surrogates and working to...
DC’s political class may be preoccupied with Boehner’s “Plan B” disaster, the fiscal cliff and the (now-overdue) Mayan Apocalypse, but some folks are focused on a longer game. Among them Patrick Ruffini and his crew at...
Woo hoo, the first presidential debate is tomorrow! Fire up your Tivos, kids, so you don’t miss a second of the non-stop action…and be glad that the professional refs are back on the job. Okay fine, maybe the debates aren’t really...
Guest article! Today we have another excerpt from Daniel Kreiss’s excellent new book, “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama,” available in the Amazon store. This installment...
Guest article! Below is the first section of the introduction to Daniel Kreiss’s new book, “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama,” available in the Amazon store. We’ll...
With the last “permanent” Occupy encampments in DC and Oakland beseiged, the first chapter of the Occupy movement seems to be closing. Will there be another, and if not, is that a bad thing? First, let’s think about what the...