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October 27, 2006
Raw notes from technology roundtable with former Presidential candidate Mark Warner in San Francisco on November 17, 2006
When I have a moment, I’ll upload the lo-qual cellphone pictures I snapped and embed them here. Maybe I’ll even get around to cleaning up these raw notes into something coherent or even listing who all was there. For now,...(See full entry.)
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September 13, 2006
Blogs United supports local bloggers
Blogger (and former Kos front-page poster) Kid Oakland has been gradually building a network called Blogs United to help local political bloggers learn from and support each other: Local bloggers are citizen journalists and activists. They are a vital part...(See full entry.)
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September 1, 2006
Outing Sen. Ted Stevens
My friend Freeman Ng alerted me to this post at Slashdot: Slashdot | Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 0: MarkusQ writes “A few days ago a bi-partisan bill (PDF) to create a searchable on-line database of government contracts, grants, insurance, loans,...(See full entry.)
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June 19, 2006
Bloggers influence Southern Baptist election
dKo draws my attention to A Shift Among the Evangelicals by E. J. Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post (Friday, June 16, 2006; Page A25): Sometimes very important elections receive very little attention. When the Southern Baptist Convention elected the...(See full entry.)
January 29, 2006
Congress-folk jump into the many
Interesting trend over on Kos of late. Senators and reps have been posting on Kos for at least a year or two. The first one I happen to remember was from Senator Boxer, and folks just loved her for it....(See full entry.)
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November 13, 2005
The limits of open-source campaigning
Micah Sifry wrote up a Rasiej Campaign Post-Mortem analyzing how Andrew Rasiej’s campaign for Public Advocate in New York City managed to fall so short of success despite its embrace of open-source philosophies, techniques, and themes. Gregory Heller responds in...(See full entry.)
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June 6, 2005
Repurposing Deaniacs
Sharper eyes than mine have caught Bret Schundler's campaign website compositing images taken from the Dean campaign (Thank God I'm Not a Republican!): Separated at Birth: Bret Schundler and Howard Dean: One photo was taken at a 2004 Dean for...(See full entry.)
May 16, 2005
Cell-phone alert on "nuclear option"
People for the American Way are preparing to create a telephonic flash mob if the Senate votes on the filibuster rule.With the Nuclear Option's timing in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's hands, there won't be enough warning to send out...(See full entry.)
April 29, 2005
A year ago I couldn't even spell jernalist
Today I are one! OK, I've dabbled in journalism before, but it's been a while and it was mostly in the tech trade press. Today my first article has been published at Personal Democracy Forum, Meetup Says Put Up or...(See full entry.)
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A year ago I couldn't even spell jernalist
Today I are one! OK, I've dabbled in journalism before, but it's been a while and it was mostly in the tech trade press. Today my first article has been published at Personal Democracy Forum, Meetup Says Put Up or...(See full entry.)
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March 17, 2005
Are political parties obsolete?
Nancy White did a fantastic job taking notes at various panels throughout SXSW interactive this year. In her write up of my second panel, Are Political Parties Obsolete?, she definitely captured the gist of most of what we were saying...(See full entry.)
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March 9, 2005
Republicans beat Democrats at marrying online community to offline actions in 2004
Quoting from The Internet Gap - by Micah L. Sifry (from Personal Democracy Forum) Kerry voters were two-and-a-half times as likely to participate in online discussions or chat groups about the election than Bush voters, almost twice as likely to...(See full entry.)
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March 4, 2005
Distributed civil disobedience
Quoting from The great FEC scare. This interview with FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith, warning that political bloggers may soon be subject to draconian regulation as a consequence of McCain-Feingold, has been linked to from all over the blogosphere.I'm frankly not...(See full entry.)
March 3, 2005
Blogging to be viewed by the FEC as an in-kind political donation?
Quoting from FEC May Regulate Blogging - by Michael Bassik at the Personal Democracy Forum blog: Bloggers and online-only journalists might have to report their hyperlinks, articles, and postings as in-kind political contributions. This according to a CNET interview with...(See full entry.)
February 3, 2005
Party heresies
In A Liberal Long March? at Greater Democracy, Jock Gill calls for a sort of Gnostic Liberal movement to revitalize the left (although to my mind his emphasis on disintermediation seems to point more to the Protestant Reformation than to...(See full entry.)
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February 2, 2005
How to sit in the peanut gallery for tonight's State of the Union
Personal Democracy Forum is hosting a State of the Union BackChannel Chat, Tonight: We will be using "A Really Simple Chat" (ARSC), the simplest way we know of to do group chats. Unlike other chat tools, ARSC is a program...(See full entry.)
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January 31, 2005
Iran polticizes social network tools
Hoder, who blogs in English and Persian at Editor: Myself says Orkut and Yahoo Messenger have become political footballs in Iran (Orkut, a hot political issue in Iran): In no other country but Iran you'll hear politicians use "Orkut" and...(See full entry.)
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December 21, 2004
Exley praises his shortcomings
Christian posted a long quote from the Berkman School living-web wonkfest last week. At that, Kerry online honcho Zach Exley told everyone that Kerry-Edwards focused too much on means and not enough on ends: The Democrats had no shortage of...(See full entry.)
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November 26, 2004
Blogging the Ukraine revolution
If you want direct reportage from the Ukraine on their election crisis, then don't miss this Ukraine Revolution weblog. This post includes a link to a "smoking gun" MP3 sound file documenting plans for vote fraud: Voice records containing voices...(See full entry.)
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November 18, 2004
Today Lott... tomorrow DeLay!
A squad of TPM readers are outing congressfolks in the Republican caucus on how they voted on the DeLay Rule: Quoting from Ch-ch-ch-changes Rare is the PDF reader who doesn't also read Josh Marshall's TalkingPointsMemo but what's going on there...(See full entry.)
November 17, 2004
Blogs nudge Kerry team toward rigorous Ohio recount
As I just posted over at Personal Democracy Forum (Trippi says blogs driving Kerry camp's interest in recount): On MSNBC's Countdown, Keith Olbermann has been one of the few television newshosts tracking down the issues related to counting and recounting...(See full entry.)
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November 16, 2004
The Nation notices the rise of open-source politics
In The Rise of Open-Source Politics, Micah L. Sifry discusses the influence of the new grassroots technologists on the past year's campaign: Josh Koenig, one of the twenty-somethings who cut their teeth at the Dean campaign and a co-founder of...(See full entry.)
November 8, 2004
Did Bush beat Kerry in the spammer war?
In How BC04 made better use of its email list, Daily Kos points to Bush vs. Kerry: Email Newsletters Rated, usability maven Jakob Nielsen's "interesting analysis" in his Alertbox web column: Although I don't actually claim that Bush won because...(See full entry.)
November 5, 2004
Did technology overpromise and undeliver in Campaign 2004?
The editors of the Personal Democracy Forum have asked a number of experienced activists and commentators to take a first look back at the events of the last 18 months and identify the biggest impact technology has had on politics....(See full entry.)
November 2, 2004
All the king's horses
We're waiting for the dust to settle around provisional ballots and the like but it appears that despite the distributed efforts of a revitalized liberal movement to get out the vote and mobilize as many supporters as possible, the Republicans...(See full entry.)
October 28, 2004
The whole world is watching
Greg Palast reports a man videotaping early voters in Florida Steve Garfield will be watching the polls and posting his findings on his video blog as he did in Massachusetts during the primaries, when he checked the compliance of campaign...(See full entry.)
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Extreme democracy in the house
The essay collection, Extreme Democracy, edited by Mitch Ratliffe and Jon Lebkowsky, has been coming out in PDF form published via the book's blog. (I imagine there's a wiki in the works as well.) Adina Levin's chapter on Campaign Tools...(See full entry.)
October 21, 2004
Do political blogs change minds?
Zogby doesn't think so (Edgewise: Simon World blogs Zogby's Hong Kong talk): The impact of the Internet has been huge. In 1996 about 4% of voters got most of their political information from the net. In 2000 it was 31%....(See full entry.)
October 6, 2004
Astroturfing the flak-catchers
Women's-right website Failure is Impossible offers a primer for countering astroturf letters- to- the- editor campaigns (Fight Back Against Killer Astroturf). The page explains how repetition of boilerplate language in letters to the editor of newspapers can be detected through...(See full entry.)
October 1, 2004
Full-court press
Not content with the track record of the Democratic party or its surrogates in winning the post-debate meta-debate media framesetting in the 2000 election, left/liberal online activists circulated chain mail messages online yesterday, itemizing the contact email addresses and websites...(See full entry.)
September 30, 2004
Congressional candidate invites bloggers to run his campaign
OK, it's just for one day, but it's still an interesting idea: So, you want to manage my campaign for a day?...(See full entry.)
September 29, 2004
Online discussion on the impact of participatory media on the 2004 election (Tuesday, Oct 5)
via Susan Mernit's Blog: Politics & the Net: Free online discussion this Tuesday: "There's a free online discussion on The Impact of Participatory Media on Election 2004 happening this Tuesday, October 5, 2004 from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Eastern...(See full entry.)
September 28, 2004
Online movement against Gallup poll
A lot of talk online today about the flaws in the most recent presidential Gallup poll - specifically, oversampling Republicans. Kos writes: Just got off the phone with a reporter from USA Today who is writing a story on potential...(See full entry.)
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Now they tell us
Peter Beinart at Time has an analysis of the election that suggest, suprise suprise, that with Iraq back as a major campaign issue, maybe Dean may not have been such a poor choice of a nomineee (TIME.com: If Howard Dean...(See full entry.)
September 22, 2004
'Of By and For' hosts live event this Friday
Bart Decrem, the producer of a political discussion site called Of, By and For, a site launched by Mitch Kapor (founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), Joe Costello (who worked on the Dean campaign) and Decrem (head of marketing for...(See full entry.)
September 10, 2004
Public vs. private: decision time for the fringe
The Anti-Defamation League has an article online titled "The Quiet Retooling of the Militia Movement". It includes a section about how the far right is learning to fine-tune the protection of their own privacy and publicity—basically, learning the lessons of...(See full entry.)
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August 26, 2004
About twice as many people have no political views as have a coherent political belief system.
[...] Man may not be a political animal, but he is certainly a social animal. Voters do respond to the cues of commentators and campaigners, but only when they can match those cues up with the buzz of their own social group. Individual voters are not rational calculators of self-interest ...(See full entry.)
August 11, 2004
Academic book: 'Democracy Online'
Routledge has published an academic tome called Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet: Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of...(See full entry.)
August 9, 2004
What about moderate drinkers?
Party for America isn't the only organization out there trying to use social bonding as a building block for political engagement and activism. There's also Drinking Liberally, which is geared towards younger adults. Their slogan is "I only drink with...(See full entry.)
August 6, 2004
A brief history of Kos
Most of this chronology is recounted in Chapter 2 of the book (after all, I interviewed Kos and Jerome Armstrong gave me some crucial last-minute insights and corrections* when the chapter was in galleys), but Kos's brief history of his...(See full entry.)
July 30, 2004
johnkerry.com
Seems worth noting that it almost doesn't seem worth noting that Kerry plugged johnkerry.com in his acceptance speech. Was a time, that would have seemed a novel thing....(See full entry.)
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July 20, 2004
Mernit's ideas for social media election coverage
I've been insanely busy (once again) preparing for the convention and the conference later this week and the blog dinner and the promotional efforts for my book that I've bookmarked about 73 addresses I've been meanin to blog about and...(See full entry.)
July 16, 2004
Will convention bloggers be 'tamed into centrism'?
The New York Times editorializing about the Democratic National Convention's press-credentialed bloggers in Conventioneering.com, wonders if this will result in a cooptation of bloggers' fiercely independent cast: . L. Mencken is said to have guffawed and slapped his thigh in delight at times as he would write about a typical ...(See full entry.)
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July 13, 2004
Republicans make bid for blog fundraising
So far, Atrios's Eschaton and Kos' Daily have most visibly bundled small donations from blog readers on behalf of Democratic causes. According to The New York Times > Business > G.O.P. Hopes Web Sites Will Be a Link to the...(See full entry.)
July 12, 2004
It's official
I've been given a press credential to blog the Democratic National Convention. Pass it on....(See full entry.)
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July 3, 2004
Trippi's book on netroots activism
Oliver Willis posted recently that he received a signed advance copy of Joe Trippi's new book, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. I must say, I'm impressed with how quickly Trippi...(See full entry.)
New democracy blog: 'Of, by and for'
Scott Rosenberg posts a head's up about a new weblog by Mitch Kapor, Bart Decrem, and Joe Costello: Mitch Kapor, Bart Decrem and Joe Costello have launched an interesting new group blog called ob4 - Of, by and for -...(See full entry.)
July 2, 2004
Kerry online money
According to The New York Times, John Kerry set a single-day record for campaign contributions via the Internet: $3 million on Wednesday, June 30. Of his $180 million so far, "Mr. Kerry has raised more than $44 million through mail...(See full entry.)
June 14, 2004
China uses the living Web against the living Web
A guest blogger at Many-to-Many reports that the "Chinese government just launched a new website for people to report on what officials describe as illegal or unhealthy information on the internet. [...] The Chinese authorities are once again using a...(See full entry.)
June 12, 2004
"It's the database, stupid"
Bob Jacobson from Activist-Tech, Grassroots something, and the WELL passes along this article (IT on the Campaign Trail) from CIO Magazine's June 1, 2004, edition, calling it "State of the art reporting on the two campaign's IT efforts." The 2004...(See full entry.)
June 9, 2004
Dem vs. Repub Meetup adoption rates compared
Political Wire: Democrats Lead GOP in Meet Ups...(See full entry.)
June 8, 2004
Party for America seeks project manager
Party for America, a partisan group that builds on what was learned running houseparties and organizing other neighbor-related voter awareness activities in the Dean campaign by veterans of the East Bay for Dean grassroots organization (now East Bay for Democracy),...(See full entry.)
May 31, 2004
Crackdown on smaller ISPs in Iran
Hossein Derakhshan writes in his English weblog on Iran, technology and pop culture, Editor: Myself, that the judiciary in Iran has begun a "widespread crackdown on many medium or small sized ISPs" there. Explaining why an upcoming blog ging festival...(See full entry.)
May 29, 2004
Email trees instead of political spam
Jon Garfunkel writes at Civilities.net about his ideas for Replacing Spam with Social Network Emailing: When you sign up for an organization ... you should be able to specify your "captain". This is the person who will email you, call...(See full entry.)
Kos starts collaborative political guide
Daily Kos has launched a wiki called the dKosopedia where Kos community member can collaborate to build a free online political resource for progressives. (Note: The Power of Many interview of Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is coming up soon.)...(See full entry.)
May 28, 2004
Democratic GAIN's job network
Democratic GAIN - Grassroots Action Institute and Network...(See full entry.)
May 24, 2004
PDF is a poor conference title
David Weinberger is blogging from the Personal Democracy Forum in New York... along with about 150 other people for a day of non-partisan discussion of how politics may be changing, particularly because of the new global connectedness. The conference organizer...(See full entry.)
May 20, 2004
Bush/Cheney's grassroots efforts
This chat from the GeorgeWBush.com website gives some insight into Republican grassroots organizing efforts. At lunch yesterday, George Kelly asked me if I was going to write about Bush's social network in my politics chapter. That is to say, his...(See full entry.)
May 13, 2004
Getting beyond "Deanism"
Anne Collingwood wrote to Phil Wolff, asking how to apply the power of the Internet to the presidential campaign: "Is it too early to see the (state-of-the-art) potential of the Internet realized?" "Are bloggers more rigid in their thinking than...(See full entry.)
May 12, 2004
Analysis of Clark Meetupers
While tracking down some Meetup data, I found this Bentley College survey from January that analyzes Wesley Clark's supporters and their use of Meetup. Beyond the Clark demographics, it says, "Clark attendees were more likely than Dean attendees to find...(See full entry.)
May 11, 2004
Gutenberg effects
Clay Shirky has again put good phrases to a phenomenon (Moblogging from the front and the new Reformation): we are learning to live in a "fully disclosed culture." I remember hearing about the security efforts being put into place around...(See full entry.)
May 6, 2004
MoveOn in their own words
A Sybexian just joined MoveOn's list and received their welcome message, which I post here for archive and quote purposes: Dear friend, We just wanted to take a moment to welcome you to the MoveOn network and tell you a...(See full entry.)
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May 5, 2004
ppipes: e-mail aggregation for liberals
Linklogging about Zack Rosen: he has started up Progressive Pipes (ppipes) to aggregate e-mail news from liberal causes, campaigns, and candidates. (Earlier PoM entry about Rosen's plan to build groupware and other development for nonprofits is here.) As Outlandish Josh...(See full entry.)
April 23, 2004
Capwiz lobbying tools from Capitol Advantage
Capitol Advantage provides services and tools to coordinate mass lobbying: Building action-oriented communities is no small task. Capitol Advantage has helped organizations educate and inspire their supporters since 1986. Capitol Advantage provides the tools and technology to engage and enlist...(See full entry.)
April 7, 2004
New idea: grassroots politics!
New York Times: One-Doorbell-One-Vote Tactic Re-emerges in Bush-Kerry Race says that local effort is back in vogue. After decades of playing poor relation to television advertising, grass-roots politics has become a campaign star this year, as many political pros predicted...(See full entry.)
April 4, 2004
Books for progressives
Mr T in AZ over on Kos is compiling a list of books for progressives here. Be interesting to see what they come up with and what portion of them are informed by the last year's events....(See full entry.)
Books for progressives
Mr T in AZ over on Kos is compiling a list of books for progressives here. Be interesting to see what they come up with and what portion of them are informed by the last year's events....(See full entry.)
March 24, 2004
Rosen's plans
Dan Gillmor has an update on what Zack Rosen is up to: The campaign is over. But Rosen tells me he's going to push ahead with what he started, aiming to create an open platform that others can use. He...(See full entry.)
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Trippi with Lester Holt?
I can't find a transcript (or even a mention, for that matter) of Joe Trippi's interview with Lester Holt (MSNBC, March 21 or 22?). But a Newsweek article on Trippi, Dean, and the Net shows up at MSNBC: Dean's Net...(See full entry.)
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March 16, 2004
Trippi, Heiferman honored by Wired
Joe Trippi and Scott Heiferman shared Wired's Rave Award in the "Political Force" category (ceremony at the Fillmore Monday night)....(See full entry.)
March 14, 2004
Emergent democracy panel at SXSW
The usual subspects are there according to Joi Ito, who's on the panel. He also notes that SXSW is blogger unfriendly....(See full entry.)
March 11, 2004
Dean IT team launches Blue State Digital
Clay Johnson, late of the Dean campaign, just sent this press release to his "friends" and "friends of friends": Christian > Clay 3/11/2004 from: Clay to: friends of friends subject: Dean Internet Team Launches Blue State Digital message: WASHINGTON, D.C.--Key...(See full entry.)
March 8, 2004
Meet John Kerry -- on Friendster
Nothing surprising—Kerry and Edwards have profiles on Friendster that look a little calculated, shock horror drama: Being able to attract such high-profile visitors -- even though it's possible some staffer created the profiles instead of the candidates themselves -- is...(See full entry.)
March 4, 2004
Doc Searls on TV
The Blogging of the President reports: On March 7th, Doc Searls, blogger and guru of the Linux Journal is scheduled to be on CBS' Sunday Morning. The subject? The net and the election. BOP's Ellen Dana Nagler was there, at...(See full entry.)
February 24, 2004
Roomful of mirrors
stavrosthewonderchicken verges on tears (of laughter) contemplating the irony of the "nuking the echo chamber" meme proposed for BloggerCon 2 in EmptyBottle.org: Echo and the Bunnymen, asking Am I missing all the constellations of new voices who haven't gotten linked...(See full entry.)
February 23, 2004
Plotting Dean's support numbers
Brian Dear has taken an interesting look at the Dean site's running Americans for Dean counters....(See full entry.)
Sen. Edwards online
Ed Cone analyzes John Edwards' online effort. He writes that the Web staff is active, serious, and successful (as measured by fundraising and communication)... But there is no sense here of a revolution, or a movement in which the Internet...(See full entry.)
February 19, 2004
Ads on Eschaton
Atrios explains his ad policy and wraps up by comparing BlogAds to the Dean blog. What the Dean campaign tapped into was a bunch of people who wanted to feel personally invested in a campaign, but hadn't found any way...(See full entry.)
February 17, 2004
Blog-supported Democrat wins off-season congressional seat
Daily Kos (among others) reports that, flying below radar when compared with the Dean campaign, blog-network activism on the left scored a victory today when former Kentucky state Attorney General Ben Chandler beat Alice Forgy Kerr in Kentucky's sixth congressional...(See full entry.)
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Let a thousand flowers bloom
An interesting (if difficult) project would be to chronicle and catalogue the proliferation of entities in a sense vying to be the DFA successor organization, self-emerging now in email and irc and phone conferences and face-to-face meetings in California and...(See full entry.)
Scott Rosenberg on Trippi at eTech
Salon.com Technology | Politics by other means: Ed Cone, a North Carolina journalist/blogger who'd written a definitive case study of the Dean campaign, asked, with some disbelief in his voice, "So you had the most formidable campaign communications system ever...(See full entry.)
February 16, 2004
Bloggers as political consultants
Armstrong Zuniga, LLC :: Netroots for Democracy...(See full entry.)
February 14, 2004
Ed Cone interviews Joe Trippi
Joe Trippi: Q&A with Ed Cone (IT Conversation): An 89-year-old guy called the headquarters one day and talked to my wife and said that he had been reading the obituaries every day because he was ready to cash it in,...(See full entry.)
February 13, 2004
Would Kerry have a blog if it weren't for Dean?
What the Deanies forgot (from The Hill.com) by Ben Goddard....(See full entry.)
February 11, 2004
Test post at Trippi blog
As reported over at RFB, Joe Trippi has started a new blog at Change for America. Since his first post was given number 6 by the MT software, I poked around a little to see if there were any earlier...(See full entry.)
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February 10, 2004
Another blog from eTech
Add Matt Welch to the eTech blog watch list: Trippi especially, but also some panelists (which have also included good ol' Doc Searls, and Cam Barrett, Dan Gillmor, Halley Suitt, Mitch Ratcliff, and MoveOn.org's interesting Wes Boyd), have used quite...(See full entry.)
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on Tuesday, February 10, 2004
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February 9, 2004
Book competition?
An L.A. Times story on Dean's slide mentions more possible competition (emphasis added): "The messenger exploded, not the message. The message has been adopted in part by other candidates and other causes," said George Washington University professor Michael Cornfield, whose...(See full entry.)
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on Monday, February 9, 2004
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eTech live on e-democracy
Blogging from eTech: Joi Ito, Jeff Jarvis (lots), Howard Rheingold (less), David Weinberger....(See full entry.)
February 6, 2004
February 3, 2004
Occam's election
Shirky's piece, linked below, refers to Steven Johnson's stevenberlinjohnson.com: My Theory About Dean's Demise: He Got Fewer Votes Than The Other Guys: I've been quoted in a couple of places saying that the Dean campaign was more like a system...(See full entry.)
Timing the postmortems
In Many-to-Many: Exiting Deanspace, Clay Shirky begins I wanted to wait ‘til today’s polls opened to post this, because I wanted it to be a post-mortem and not a vivisection........(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Tuesday, February 3, 2004
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Dean blogger's modest proposal for the DNC
Daily Kos || Dear Terry, here's how to ask the blogs for support... (Matt Stoller, DFA)...(See full entry.)
February 2, 2004
Background history of blogs for Dean
Last month, before Iowa, Matt Stoller recounted some of the early history of the Dean (and Clark) online movements....(See full entry.)
Cutting democracy loose
David Weinberger has a new Corante blog that's looking into the effects of the Internet on democracy, partly using the Dean campaign as an object lesson....(See full entry.)
January 30, 2004
Media will cover their backsides too
CNET covers both sides of the question—the Net alone can't elect you; it's hard to get elected without the Net—but the sidebar reads, "Bottom line: While Dean may not win the race, his success in raising money and awareness through...(See full entry.)
January 27, 2004
CA Dem leader thinks the Net has real impact
NYTimes feature "As New Hampshire Primary Nears, Few Can Recall a More Frenzied Final Weekend" says, Bob Mulholland, a longtime adviser to the California State Democratic Party, came to Manchester on a candidate-shopping trip this weekend, and with a friend...(See full entry.)
Has social software hurt Dean?
Ever the contrarian, over on Many-to-Many Clay Shirky asks Is Social Software Bad for the Dean Campaign? A few choice quotes: We know well from past attempts to use social software to organize groups for political change that it is...(See full entry.)
January 26, 2004
Who 0wnz the story?
Think I ought to try to interview the Dean Goes Nuts guy? Perfect example of a spontaneous Internet community proposing an alternative narrative frame from the one that the TV-centric media apparatus is offering. Here's the latest bit of hilarious...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Monday, January 26, 2004
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Does the 'Net Balkanize us?
Sunday's NYTimes carried an article ("Politics of the Web: Meet, Greet, Segregate, Meet Again") claiming that the Internet suppresses the exchange of differing views. Bowling Alone's Putnam is quoted to the effect that the Internet is a tool and the...(See full entry.)
January 23, 2004
Ed Cone looks at Dean campaign hype bubble
Ed Cone: Another Internet bubble has popped........(See full entry.)
January 22, 2004
Details of a precinct walk
Online registration for my neighbors here in Oakland....(See full entry.)
January 21, 2004
RightMarch.com
Terri Gross interviewed Wes Boyd and Eli Pariser from MoveOn today and mentioned a right-wing advocacy group called RightMarch, run by a William Green, which took out an ad denouncing a MoveOn ad that accused (in the words of the...(See full entry.)
The blog giveth and the blog taketh away
A former Dean supporter who posted to the Blog for America that Dean's "scary" concession speech from Iowa had turned him off to the candidacy ended up being quoted in the New York Time today. He elaborates about it in...(See full entry.)
January 20, 2004
Accounting for Iowa
We can now start to think about Chapter 2 in terms of outcomes and not just inputs. Dean's finish has to be part of the story; yes, he did a great job mobilizing people in real ways (babysitting, for crying...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Tuesday, January 20, 2004
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