Online campaign to "Stop Fake News"
BY Christian Crumlish | Sunday, March 13 2005
A quickie (I'm at SXSW and will be posting here about the activist technology track here): Stop Fake News, a petition site challenging the Bush administration habit of distributing pre-packaged news stories that aren't ... Read More
A Change. Not an End.
BY Chris Nolan | Sunday, March 13 2005
A few days ago, I got smacked around by the folks at Captains Quarters over a column I wrote in eWeek about blogging and the FEC. The story had a dumb headline that didn't really get at the point I was trying to make so ... Read More
Conference Quotes of Note
BY Kate Kaye | Sunday, March 13 2005
We reporter types are suckers for a good quote. The wordsmithing was abundant at last week’s Politics Online Conference. Here are some of my faves that I was able to capture in my notes, listed in semi-chronological ... Read More
Henry the Huckster? Blogads's Copeland Gnaws WashPost's Heel
BY Kate Kaye | Friday, March 11 2005
Wow. As a reporter covering the online ad space, I've followed Henry Copeland's Blogads project since its near-genesis. I've gotta say, I was a bit shocked (like being a bit pregnant?) by an implication he made while ... Read More
MoveOn Going Local
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 11 2005
MoveOn.org has quietly decided to experiment with a new form of off-line organizing, its Washington director Tom Matzzie tells me, one that readers of Zephyr Teachout's PDF articles will find immediately familiar: to ... Read More
Instapundit, Powerbreaker
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 11 2005
Glenn Reynolds says that Thomas's speech was "the most cogent argument for the elimination of the FEC" that he's ever heard. Sorry, Glenn, but I disagree about that--we can't go to a system where there are no limits on ... Read More
FEC "Pooper-Scooper" Arrives
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 11 2005
FEC Chair Scott Thomas is speaking now at the IPDI conference lunch, and he's started out by saying how he's here as a "pooper-scooper" to pick up after the "load" of "FECal matter" (his pun) dropped by his esteemed ... Read More
Enter The $100 Candidate
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 11 2005
Phil Noble of PoliticsOnline just handed Joe Trippi $100 cash up on the plenary panel of the IPDI "Politics Online" conference, as instant affirmation of Joe's longstanding argument that someday soon a candidate for ... Read More
False alarm on FEC regulation of bloggers?
BY Christian Crumlish | Thursday, March 10 2005
Quoting from Senators reassure bloggers (CNET News.com) Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold reassured the Internet community that bloggers will not be regulated by federal campaign finance laws. The senators, who ... Read More