Due to a ridiculously embarrassing snafu (check those passport expiration dates, kids!), I am NOT delivering a presentation in Mexico City this afternoon (ouch). While this situation sucks in myriad ways, it does give us the chance to consider why...
Congressman Twitters a Security Breach, as Hoekstra Twitters Details of Iraq Codel. Stimulating the Netroots — Obama/DNC stimulus bill outreach has social media angle. C.f. e.politics coverage, plus The Challenge of Managing Obama’s...
Here’s an observation I’ve been meaning to write up since Netroots Nation this summer, but one that seems particularly relevant now as both Democrats and Republicans are getting their first views of their current legislators in action:...
One quick observation from the Fem2.0 conference — during the current plenary session, a six-person panel discussion, the organizers are displaying the event’s Twitter feed (#fem2) on a screen behind the panelists. The benefit is that it...
Cross-posted on Fem2.0 Quick: off the top of your head, name the most prominent voices in the progressive political blogosphere. Kos? A guy. Atrios? A guy. Josh Marshall? Glenn Greenwald? Jerome Armstrong? Ditto. The only top-level female bloggers...
Ginormous post-Inauguration catch-up edition — fruits of a month of random browsing, obsessive clicking and a ton of Google Alerts. Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages. Lots of talk about the new Whitehouse.gov: New...
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...