Will Fred Thompson be an Internet Campaign Innovator? Alan Rosenblatt says, guilty as charged. Ol’ Fred had better do somethin’ right quick: For GOP, Gen Next is becoming Gen Gone (a Burt Edwards suggestion). Ron Paul to the rescue...
Cross-posted at techPresident Inspired by the May 16th e.politics/techPresident article on the conspicuous lack of presidential campaign widgets, a group of software developers has started to build their own — if the campaigns won’t help...
[Update: The Politico’s James Joyner responds.] Guest article! My good friend and colleague Burt Edwards has a bone to pick with a recent Politico article, and he’s not afraid to do it in public for your amusement. Be warned — if...
Internet/politics legend Mike Cornfield, who’s also here in LA for the Knight New Media Center seminar on Covering Politics in Cyberspace, just shot me a link to a groovy new application from OpenSecrets.org — it’s a browsable...
I just caught Susan Finkelpearl cheating on us with Democracy in Action! Moreover, she’s brazenly flaunting her Tips (for Sprucing up Your Website), and in public, too! Does User-Generated Content Work for Political Campaigns? Todd Zeigler...
Hey kids, I’m finally recovered from the N-Ten conference last week — thanks to everyone who came to the social media panel Michael Silberman and I put on. It was a hoot and a half, despite the lack of audio, and people definitely came...
One quick morsel for you guys before I head back to N-Ten: this morning, NPR interviewed Matthew Gross, the guy who ran Howard Dean’s online campaign in ’04 and who’s now in charge of John Edwards’ Internet strategy. Some...
Republicans For Obama! At least, they like his website. Dissecting an NRCC site: Mike Turk and Blog P.I. wield the scalpels. Enough of this Web 2.0 crap: Email marketing still works, and Getting Attention points to the best email campaigns of recent...
Clearly recognizing the rising potential of online political organizing as a powerful new source of our most precious resource in the War on Terror (satire), The Daily Show tried to poach turf from e.politics the other night by taking a close look...
Welcome to the neighborhood, Politico! “In its early days the Politico is demonstrating the same coziness with power and pack reporting mentality that’s sadly been the hallmark of old media.” Huffington journalism professor = mass...