Update: Shirley Sherrod To Sue Blogger Andrew Breitbart Over Doctored Video. Update: The American Auto Industry: A Comeback Story, told with a map. Update: Rules of enragement: the filibuster and Senate reform (Grist creates an information center)...
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...
Integrate or die: words seen on Epolitics.com before and for good reason, since standalone online campaigns rarely work as well as ones combined with concrete action in the physical world. For a good example of how the virtual can combine with the...
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...
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...
New guest author! Check out the post below for the first of what I hope will be many articles from political consultant Martin Matheny (blog, Twitter), who comes to us with a terrific set of tips for campaigns using social media. Nine Things...