E-Democracy in England
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, February 15 2007
Steven Clift, who knows more than anyone I know about how countries around the world are experimenting with reinventing government in the electronic age, has a fascinating new post on his blog about a new service in ... Read More
Over the Transom
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, February 15 2007
One of the things I love about blogging and the web is that if you have a halfway decent idea and it gets noticed by a few sites that function like giant switching stations, very quickly all kinds of other good people ... Read More
Editorial Housekeeping
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, February 15 2007
It's time for some editorial housekeeping. Last night, I deleted a post by a new user, Hasan Jafri. He had signed up and innocently discovered that users had permission to blog and/or post stories with digg-like voting ... Read More
Hillary's BlankSpace?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, February 12 2007
What happened to Hillary Clinton's friends on MySpace.com? A day ago, she had about 22,000; now her site lists only 12,177. For a couple of hours today, if you tried to go to http://www.myspace.com/hillaryclinton2008, ... Read More
TechPresident Officially Launches
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, February 12 2007
Welcome to our new group blog on how the presidential campaigns are using the web, and how the web is using them, TechPresident.com. This blog is an extension of Personal Democracy Forum, our online zine and annual ... Read More
Change.org Launches
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, February 7 2007
Leaders of non-profit organizations all across the country may want to sit up and take notice. Ben Rattray has opened the public beta of his new site, Change.org. Here's what he says about it: Read More
Still More on Edwards-Marcotte Non-Scandal
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, February 7 2007
So now the rightwing Catholic League has waded into the presidential scrum with an attack on the John Edwards campaign for hiring two bloggers who have, in the past, written harsh, even profane, criticisms of the ... Read More
Still More on Edwards-Marcotte Non-Scandal
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, February 7 2007
So now the rightwing Catholic League has waded into the presidential scrum with an attack on the John Edwards campaign for hiring two bloggers who have, in the past, written harsh, even profane, criticisms of the ... Read More
More on the Marcotte-Edwards Non-Scandal
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, February 6 2007
So, I wrote Danny Glover a note this morning about his coverage of the brouhaha online over John Edwards' hiring of Pandagon blogger Amanda Marcotte to be his campaign blog-master. (If you think this controversy isn't ... Read More