Chris Bowers' Powers
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, October 25 2006
You can't miss the impact of one well-networked blogger, Chris Bowers of MyDD.com, on the final weeks of the election. About a week ago he had a brainstorm: if the DNC was going to borrow $10 million to try to support ... Read More
HotSoup's Tepid
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, October 25 2006
For a harsh and hilarious review of HotSoup, the new political social networking site led by a raft of Beltway big-feet, read Blog P.I.'s take. Mike Turk says "it may be the most poorly conceived idea since Kevin ... Read More
HotSoup Sneak Peek
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, October 19 2006
Want to get a look at the innards of HotSoup--the soon-to-be-launched new entry in the social-networking sweepstakes? While the site's homepage will turn you away, just go to any of these links--HotIssues, About, Press, ... Read More
Have Liberals Cornered Web 2.0?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, October 12 2006
That's the provocative premise of Robert Cox, president of the nonpartisan Media Bloggers Association and a blogger who was made famous by the New York Times' idiotic decision to sue him for posting a parody of its ... Read More
Careful: Don't Game Social News Sites
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, October 12 2006
The Bivings Report says that it appears the folks at ThinkProgress, a prolific and well-written blog connected to the Center for American Progress, have been trying to artificially pump up their stories on Digg, ... Read More
Hot New Oversight Databases Go Live
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, October 10 2006
Want to know exactly how the federal government spends your money, or which contractors get the bulk of government deals, or what percentage of those contracts are bid competitively? Or, would you like to find out how ... Read More
How to Blog Anonymously
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, October 5 2006
Do you want to blow the whistle on some kind of wrong-doing, but you can't afford the risk of being exposed? Here is the best, most up-to-date guide on how to protect the secrecy of your identity online, written by ... Read More
Google Head Geeks Out on Politics
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, October 4 2006
Yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was in Britain, giving a speech before the Conservative Party's annual conference, and he also made some news in an interview with the Financial Times where he talked about the ... Read More
Exley on Trusting the People
BY Micah L. Sifry | Sunday, October 1 2006
Just read it. It's terrific. Read More
Good Reading on Blogging and Politics
BY Micah L. Sifry | Sunday, October 1 2006
It's a relief, after all the heavy-breathing nonsense from pundits like David Brooks about Markos Moulitsas as some kind of "kingmaker" and Lee Siegel about "blogofascism," to read a smart essay on the way that the ... Read More