In the most recent edition of Campaigns & Elections, we learn about the quiet death of a voter-contact technology: Facebook recently announced a grassroots murder. The culprit? A change in the way Facebook apps interact with the company’s vast amount of data on individual users. The...
Read More »The latest Technology Bytes column is now online at the Campaigns & Elections site, and it’s chock-full of digital strategy goodness. The main topics this edition: Twitter’s new advertising options and their political application Online ads to buy early (like “homepage...
Read More »While I’ve been working on the next Technology Bytes column for Campaigns and Elections magazine this past week, the previous one went online (the print version of the magazine shipped a couple of weeks ago). This issue, we’re talking about: Now Democrats plan to take the data-driven...
Read More »The November/December issue of Campaigns & Elections is now fully online, including a new edition of Technology Bytes! The big story this time around: an inside look at the role of Big Data in the 2013 Virginia election, including the all-important “voter data feedback loop.”...
Read More »Happy Friday! Quick Hits is still coming together for this week, but if you’re hungry for a digital politics reading fix, try the latest Campaigns & Elections magazine Technology Bytes column. Exploring the political potential of Facebook Custom Audiences? Check. Vanity metrics and...
Read More »The current Campaigns & Elections TechBytes column went online today, and it’s chock-full of goodies for you fine people to enjoy. First up, Obama Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani and others talk a about the limits of data in political targeting. Remember that relentless data-driven...
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