Aaron Swartz awarded in Technorati developers' contest
BY Christian Crumlish | Wednesday, January 19 2005
The widget on the PDF home page that shows which Senators and Congressfolks are being talked about the most in the blogosphere is driven by Technorati using an application developed for this site by Aaron Swartz. Micah ... Read More
Kos on Blog Ethics
BY Christian Crumlish | Tuesday, January 18 2005
In a post called Ethics, Kos addresses the recent Zephyr / Dean / WSJ / Armstrong-Williams-equivalency flap: So to recap, if I write about something in which I hold a financial stake, I will disclose it. If I don't, then ... Read More
Harwood: Tackling Red & Blue Issues
BY Jed Miller | Tuesday, January 18 2005
For Inauguration week, Rich Harwood has invited several guests to his Redeeming Hope blog to talk about the Red/Blue division and "the next chapter of America’s story." Rich has written and spoken extensively about the ... Read More
NetRoots Building with Long Tail Principles
BY Kaliya Hamlin | Tuesday, January 18 2005
At the end of the Internet and Politics session there was a great discussion about Netroots [GrassRoots + Online] organizing with Matt Stoller and others: You can build very geographically distributed constituencies ... Read More
Internet and Politics (4) NetRoots Organizers
BY Kaliya Hamlin | Tuesday, January 18 2005
These questions came up during the session What is a good web organizer? What do you look for when hire one? How do you evaluate firms who offer services in this realm? There were no clear answers offered to these ... Read More
Thinking Out Loud: Help Wanted
BY Chris Nolan | Monday, January 17 2005
The MoveOn story I wrote last month triggered a long email from Amanda Toering, the founder of SpeakSpeak.org, an organization she's started to help – dare I say it – put reasonable standards back in television. ... Read More
Internet and Politics (2) High Return Despite Low Investment
BY Kaliya Hamlin | Monday, January 17 2005
Michael Cornfield from the Pew Research Center on the Internet and American LIfe shared some interesting facts. Only 1/100th of the money spent in this campaign cycle was spent on internet advertising compared to ... Read More
Internet and Politics (1) What is a Network?
BY Kaliya Hamlin | Monday, January 17 2005
Matt Stoller did a great Job blogging the second Internet panel at emergingprogressives. I thought Michael's presentation about the difference between one to many (traditional campaigns with hierarchical structures, ... Read More
Overwhelmed by Talking Heads at Emerging Progressives
BY Kaliya Hamlin | Saturday, January 15 2005
I just left the 5th plenary session that I have heard in less then 24 hours at emerging progressives (perhaps less gracefully then I could have). So far all the folks on stage are 'elders' in the party and movement ... Read More
New Tools – Old Tactics (3) How tech changed campaigns
BY Kaliya Hamlin | Saturday, January 15 2005
At emergingprogressives: How has the internet changed things: Fundraising Productivity Transparenty Insurgent media Politictal Heterarchical organizing Good and bad No one has yet to put together all of these cool new ... Read More