If there’s any piece of the primary season frenzy that seems designed to drive voters insane, it’s the unsolicited phone calls. The ones from real people are bad enough, but robocalls were clearly invented by someone with a deep hatred...
Obama Gets Mobile Right. Hooray for technology! Or maybe not. Backlash over anti-Obama email in New Hampshire Someone’s keeping the faith: Email details Huckabee’s Michigan evangelical turnout operation. Clinton’s Fund-raising...
Welcome To The Iowa Caucuses, Viewed Online Through Grassroots Lenses. Can’t get enough Iowa? Let’s hang with the locals. Obama Girl, Britney Boy Top YouTube Videos. More significant: Obama Girl makes the AdRants Raciest Ads of the Year...
Slate’s Trailhead column picked up a very fun feature on Mitt Romney’s site on Wednesday afternoon — enter your name and a friend’s name, and this interesting Flash application will record a phone message for him or her. The...
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...
Time for a little of The Good, The Bad and the Downright Ugly of Online Politics Let’s start with the Ugly: The travesty of political robo-calls, in which Slate’s William Saletan takes on a campaign tool that needs to die. Next, the Bad:...
Quick Hits returns! Last seen in abbreviated form on September 7th, it’s been off training hard for the ’08 campaign season. Crowdsourcing the Latest Giuliani Scandal. Kos sez, let’s come up with a catchy name for Giuliani’s...
A quick thought about Google’s OpenSocial, which was unveiled a few weeks ago: while most of the attention focused on the use of OpenSocial Google Gadgets on social networking sites, Gadgets are actually web widgets that’ll run on most...
Just got an email from a friend in Texas who heard a Ron Paul ad on CNN radio over XM this morning. He couldn’t tell if it was a normal CNN radio spot or a satellite-radio-only ad, but it still jumped out at him enough to pass along the word...
A quick update from the technical side of online politics: Grassroots Enterprises has put out a new virtual phone-banking tool they’re calling PhoneTheVote. Virtual phone banks replace a roomful of volunteer callers with a distributed network...