Alan Rosenblatt has unearthed a most fascinating artifact: a guide to online activism produced by a white supremicist in the days before the World Wide Web was all that wide. Alan ran across it in the late 1990s and recently found it again, and...
Cross-posted on techPresident For now, the nascent revolution in Iran seems to have stalled. With its leaders in hiding and the government trumpeting “confessions” from organizers and journalists, I can only imagine how Iranians hoping...
The Conclusion of a six-part series As the presidential race heated up, the internet grew from being the medium of a core group of political junkies to a gateway for millions of ordinary Americans to participate in the political process, donating...
Back in the day, my Dad’s favorite technique to get me to do something a little beyond my self-assessed abilities was to “make a deal with me.” He’d say, I’ll buy this model ship kit that you wish to possess and place...
The e.politics bunker has reverberated lately with a familiar sound, words like “&%$#,” “*&%$” and “7%$#,” often combined into phrases like this: “you &%$#ing hateful little &%#@ing...
Cross-posted on techPresident What matters at the polls? The candidate, the message, and the moment: everything else just sets the stage. You can have every endorsement in the state, tons of money in the bank, a flashy online volunteer-mobilization...
Working on a presentation for tomorrow’s Vocus user conference, I’m stuck by how often I keep coming back to a simple model for online organizing: the tripod. The basic idea (which I stole from Josh McConaha a while back) is that most...
Cross-posted on techPresident Update: Check out Henri Makembe’s related piece for a different angle on the topic. Fascinating experience a few days ago — I got to do a presentation/discussion about online fundraising with a group of...
This quote jumped out at me as I blearily scanned The Post this morning: Reihan Salam, co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save America,” said this week that the danger for Republicans is to think...
Like a grenade tossed into quiet waters, last week’s Twitter article definitely fired up a couple of folks up over on techPresident, Jon Pincus in particular. Check out the full thread at tPrez (thanks to Micah for jumping in while I was...