Special straight-outta-Netroots Nation edition, brought to you from Las Vegas — a land of sensory overload and curiously banal excess. How the Internet Organizes the Unemployed. Sarah Palin, Paper Grizzly. Who watched her video? People who...
Reid Takes Down Mock Web Site Of GOP Rival. D’oh! It’s back up after slight modifications (thanks for the catch, Phil). CNN’s Octavia Nasr Leaving Network After Controversial Hezbollah Tweet, as Kos is banned from MSNBC over Tweet...
Angle Takes Legal Action After Reid Re-Publishes Site. C.f. Scrubbing Sharron Angle. The latest in corporate damage control: Bob Dudley, Chief Executive for BP Response, answers your questions about the oil spill through YouTube, answers via live...
Quick Hits is back! Strap yourself in: we have some major cache-clearing ahead. Alvin Green (D for SC Senator) now has a website, straight outta 1999. Alleged Russian agents used high-tech tricks. C.f. Russian spies took advantage of tech. Senate...
New guest author! A fresh voice around here, at least. But Shana Glickfield‘s hardly new to the internet politics space, since she’s an experienced online communicator, one of the founding partners of The Beekeeper Group (“a new...
If Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward was “a political gift” to Democrats, as Rahm Emmanuel put it, the Dems are working to make sure that it’s a financial gift — and one that keeps on giving. After...
Interesting little tidbit from Nevada: a group calling itself the Patriot Majority is running ads against Sharron Angle on conservative websites, describing her as “‘Nevada’s WORST legislator!’ and a ‘professional...
If you’re in DC or headed this way in the next days, be sure to check out Digital Capital Week, a celebration of onine technology and culture that kicks off today. I’m planning to hit as many of the events as I can, beginning with...
One less-public side of the online politics world involves the blizzard of emails and texts that fly between political communications staff and reporters just about every day. The communicators’ goal: to influence reporting and shift the...
Josh Koster and Tyler Davis’s follow-up to yesterday’s piece on early-in-cycle list-building advertising. See also their earlier Ten Commandments of Campaign Social Media, all excerpted from the (free to download) Digital Political...