The difference between Inauguration 2009 and its equivalent eight years ago was so vast that it’s hard to know where to start. The entire public mood of the city inverted — we endured mobs of party-goers instead of protesters, and did so...
What do we mean when we say that something on the internet is “viral?” I ask because the word shows up in such different contexts that people don’t always seem to be talking about the same thing. If you’re in the...
New Year’s resolution! Time for some routine site maintenance — let’s bust out the dustrags and polish up the silverware, and maybe take out the trash on time for once. Unfortunately, E.politics Video has ended up on the dustbin of...
Getting back to writing has been the most difficult part of recovering from the holidays — it’s felt a little like the HAL shut-down sequence from 2001 in reverse, only slower and requiring more caffeine. Design work started first, since...
Merry Christmas! The turkey’s still in the oven, but these links are ready to serve. Ari Melber: Obama for America 2.0?. Plane Crash Kills GOP Internet Consultant. A cell-phone modification for on-the-spot disease detection and monitoring, via...
Home for the holidays? Here’s some light reading to distract you from your “beloved” kinfolk. The Revolution of the Online Commentariat. Will bloggers eventually dominate the campaign power structure? Hmmmm, let’s hear a...
Well, it looks as though the recession has hit even the D.C. area, which is usually immunized somewhat against bad economic times by the presence of the federal government and all who feed on it. The latest evidence — what happened to the...
Clearing the decks — the results of several weeks of random browsing. How Hulu is Like Obama, via Andrew Golisg. Dear President Obama: There are a couple of embarrassing e-mails from my past that I think you should know about. What Next for...
Speaking about social media at Tuesday’s Media Future Now lunch, Melanie Phung made a great point about blogger relations: she described it as effective but not efficient. That’s an excellent summing-up, since a link in the right blog...
Obama Delivers First Democratic Video Address, with reviews (Rating Obama’s First Weekly YouTube Address) and previews: The YouTube Presidency and Obama Turns To YouTube For Weekly Broadcast. Plus, commentary/criticisms On Putting a...