Cross-posted on techPresident Writing in the NY Times Magazine a couple of weeks ago, Matt Bai evoked a vivid picture to describe how political campaigns should, in his eyes, harness the internet: In the new and evolving online world, the greatest...
Ron Paul/Tim Russert Interview Shows What Political Journalism and the Music Industry Have in Common
Ron Paul’s appearance on Meet The Press last Sunday was immensely revealing for many reasons, not the least of which was his success (in the words of The Smirking Chimp) at “parrying each of Tim Russert’s attempts to find a gotcha...
Glenn Greenwald has a fascinating piece in Salon today detailing the work that bloggers and other online organizers did both in public and behind the scenes to derail, at least temporarily, the the reauthorization bill for the Foreign Intelligence...
Friday Fun comes a day early this week, with a terrific video mashup courtesy of the CamPain2008 YouTube channel. Excellent work! It doesn’t tell us much about the political world, but that does nothing to detract from a standalone piece of...
Big news from Iowa this weekend, with Mike Huckabee and Barak Obama apparently bouncing to the top of the likely caucus-voter polls. Writing in the Post on Sunday, Chris Cillizza And Shailagh Murray point to an email list as part of the reason for...
More news from the land of random widgetry: the Post’s The Fix column has its own RSS widget, which I just noticed today displayed in an advertising bubble between its first two stories. The other Post blogs I checked didn’t seem to...
Cross-posted on techPresident The YouTube debate may not have revolutionized politics, but it sure as hell was more of a pleasure to watch than your average political event. I’d read both hype and skepticism in the days beforehand, and I...
Some quick highlights from the candidates’ strategies to leverage the debates to build their supporter bases, connect with voters and foster online community: Kucinich wins for best use of his own video clip: Text “P-E-A-C-E.” SMS...
Fascinating article in Slate today about the use of political campaign tactics to build demand for Michael Moore’s new film about health care in America, Sicko: The Weinstein Company, Sicko’s distributor, has hired a Democratic...
In a meeting of pop culture powerhouses that surely foreshadows the coming Apocalypse, Mark Burnett, the guy behind “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” has teamed up with MySpace to create a competition to find “the...