Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Elections magazine Technology Bytes column is out, and you don’t want to miss it. The current edition leads off with a discussion of the voter-data infrastructure being created by the Koch brothers’ political machine, centered around consulting...
Read More »The 2014 elections are behind us, but the post-mortems are still flowing fast. The latest edition of “Technology Bytes” got a jump on the competition, though, with a pre-mortem (I filed the column late in October) look at the two key technologies campaigns employed to help get people...
Read More »Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Election Magazine Technology Bytes column is now online, so be sure to check it out. This is the last edition to hit the public eye before Election Day, and we went with a series of shorter pieces to pack as much in as possible before November 4th...
Read More »We looked earlier at C&E Magazine’s coverage of a Facebook API change that gets rid of a popular way to connect Facebook to a voter file, but that wasn’t the only juicy story in this issue’s Technology Bytes column. We also covered sneaky ways campaigns are using the...
Read More »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...
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