Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has started plucking questions posed to him online to answer in videos on his YouTube channel. Walker released four videos from questions taken via Twitter, Facebook, and email, which ranged ... Read More

Also subjected to DDoS attacks on the Internet infrastructure supporting political dissent in Russia: Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper that the BBC describes as "often critical of official policies:" A spokesperson for Novaya ... Read More

LiveJournal, which is core infrastructure for Russia's political blogosphere, has been under distributed denial of service attack this week, according to The Moscow Times and others. (UPDATE: You can also check out ... Read More

Reform Immigration for America, an advocacy group that supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, says in a new report* that 39 percent of people on its list of mobile phone users who signed up for their ... Read More

The political prankster who owns TimKaine.com has changed the site so it now redirects to the Communist Party USA's webpage, the Washington Examiner has observed. The Examiner's Yeas & Nays column seems to think this ... Read More

Jim Gilliam. Photo: Brave New Films / Flickr Online activist, Brave New Films co-founder and Personal Democracy Forum 2011 speaker Jim Gilliam is planning to give a live preview of his new platform for online campaigns, ... Read More

Roadify, the mobile app that allows users to get and contribute data relevant to commuting, like bus arrival times or traffic information, has won this year's NYC BigApps competition. The winners were announced at a ... Read More

Wishing that legislators worked more like developers of open-source software, coder Shawn Willden has written a scraper that turns changes to the laws of the United States into commits to a code repository on GitHub, the ... Read More

The New Organizing Institute has just released a set of research results from years of experiments in optimizing email open rates: Over the last two years, we’ve partnered with a half-dozen progressive advocacy groups ... Read More