First POST: Clean-up
BY Miranda Neubauer | Wednesday, October 31 2012
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: A round of anonymous anti-Obama text messages last night stoked a debate about what can and can't be sent to your phone; outing the man behind some of the most egregious fibs about Hurricane Sandy's impact on New York City; and more in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web. Read More
First POST: Receding Waters
BY Miranda Neubauer | Tuesday, October 30 2012
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: On social media, the people who spread false information made a bigger splash than the people who spread real news during Hurricane Sandy; one writer argues that the Obama campaign still far outstrips the Romney campaign when it comes to identifying which voters to contact, and more in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web. Read More
First POST: Tracking Sandy
BY Miranda Neubauer | Monday, October 29 2012
Source: National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: How technology is helping people understand Hurricane Sandy's path; how the campaigns are using the web to gear up for the last full week of the election; and more in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web. Read More
PCCC Staffers Think They've Discovered the Future of Phone-Banking
BY Miranda Neubauer | Friday, October 26 2012
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has figured out a way to do distributed phone-banking at such a low cost that they can do so at high volume while still coordinating with the campaigns they support, staffers say. "We're more deeply integrated with these campaigns, working with them directly and targeting their people," said spokesman Neil Sroka. "They might want help from other people but other organizations aren't allowed to talk to them." Read More
First POST: What the Numbers Say
BY Miranda Neubauer | Friday, October 26 2012
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: Is Mitt Romney's online operation able to keep up with Barack Obama's digital team? That and more in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web. Read More
Obama Campaign Buys Top Ad Spot On Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Website
BY Miranda Neubauer | Thursday, October 25 2012
The Obama campaign has bought a front large front-page ad on the website of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today to advertise early voting, as Jonathan Weisman noted on Twitter. Read More
First POST: A Dying Netroots?
BY Miranda Neubauer | Thursday, October 25 2012
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: Questions and more questions in today's roundup of technology in politics from around the web — should progressives feel betrayed when their colleagues who build technology decide to become nonpartisan? Should campaigns sign on to the current means of collecting donations via text message? And are the netroots losing political clout? Read More
First POST: Nothing In Here About the iPad Mini
BY Miranda Neubauer | Wednesday, October 24 2012
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: New looks at data mining, the campaigns' online push in the run-up to election day and Facebook's lobbying expenses, all in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web. Read More
Election Day in New York Will Be a Testbed for a New Secure Mobile Communication Tool
BY Miranda Neubauer | Tuesday, October 23 2012
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School is partnering with faculty and industry experts from Columbia, Stanford and Tumblr to launch a mobile iPhone application aimed at providing "secure communication between journalists and their sources, as well as to support secure, real-time coordination and publishing for field journalists and newsroom editors," Columbia Journalism Assistant Professor Susan McGregor wrote in an e-mail to the Tow Center events listserv. Read More
First POST: Horses and Bayonets
BY Miranda Neubauer | Tuesday, October 23 2012
Photo: U.S. Army
Around the web: How President Barack Obama's cavalry charge on Mitt Romney at last night's debate played out online; Change.org is poised to become nonpartisan, making it a traditionally progressive company shifting to accept Republican clients, according to a report; and more in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web. Read More