Also published on The Huffington Post At dinner the other night, a friend and I ended up talking about ways to drag one of the more hierarchical and hidebound segments of the Progressive Movement (a.k.a. The Great Leftist Conspiracy) into the modern...
Here’s a quick point that never hurts to repeat: asking people to send a message to Congress through an online advocacy system mean that you have to DELIVER the emails via the internet. In fact, it’s usually more effective to print them...
Well, that was a substantial break — only two short pieces in the past month, and one of those largely a reprint…nice work if you can get it. But a blog is a harsh mistress, and this one can only be denied for so long. So despite a layer...
More good stories than we could possibly deserve. RNC document mocks donors, plays on ‘fear’, which of course sparks a Democratic fundraising drive in response. But the Empire strikes back: RNC email raises money off of Rangel. In a...
All the online politics news that’s fit to link to. MoveOn backing challenger to Sen. Blanche Lincoln. C.f. A local take on the race. Searching for Saddam: A five-part series on how the U.S. military used social networking to capture the Iraqi...
Hey y’all, disregard that earlier message about rewriting Online Politics 101 — that endeavor’s still in the hopper, but a quick update to How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 has taken precedence. Between RootsCamp...
Let’s keep this one to a manageable size and catch up with the advocacy blogs next time. Update: @BarackObama, the president’s Twitter account, asks supporters to turn their icons into a jobs graph. Recovery Act – Year One and...
Here’s a quick President’s Day pledge — give me a week or three and I’ll get out a new version of Online Politics 101. Last updated in the summer of 2008, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, as a couple of readers...
For a quick laugh and a chance to raise money for some good Lefties, but sure to head over to OMGGOPWTF.com. Here’s how the site works, according to Madeline Stanionis: Each week, we post five questions about the latest conservative kookiness...
Trying to do these a little more often… The GOP Rises Online, as New media help conservatives get their anti-Obama message out. They’re not alone: U.K. Conservatives Embrace Digital to Revamp Image. SOTU report: War Rooms Set Up for...