In Search of a New American Vision at Netroots Nation and Right Online
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, June 20 2011
The Right knows what it wants, but its base needs to learn how to better use technology. The Left knows how to use tech, but its base needs to figure out what it wants. Both can't help but be reactive to each other. And ... Read More
Changes at Change.org: A Media Hub for Social Action
BY Micah L. Sifry | Saturday, October 11 2008
Is it possible to build a successful web portal and community hub around issues and activism? So far, no one has succeeded in this quest, though there a lot of people trying and one could argue that sites as diverse as ... Read More
Daily Digest: You Never Forget Your First (2 Million)
BY Joshua Sherman | Friday, August 15 2008
Obama reaches 2 million donors, BarelyPolitical barely keeps my attention, McCain's tech policy review, techPresident is honored with a nomination, Obama and McCain's YouTube channels Read More
McCain Launches New Blog, Links to Kos
BY Ari Melber | Friday, June 6 2008
Why is the McCain Campaign reaching out to Daily Kos? Read More
Pro-Clinton Writers Go "On Strike" at DailyKos
BY Micah L. Sifry | Saturday, March 15 2008
It looks like the heightening divisions with the Democratic party over the Obama-Clinton contest are causing an open split in the online progressive city known as DailyKos. Read More
Daily Digest: To Endorse Or Not To Endorse
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, February 25 2008
Judging the efficacy of a Google bomb campaign against John McCain; three liberal blogs ask readers if they should endorse a candidate before the nominee emerges; another piece about why Twitter matters; illustrating the ... Read More
Daily Digest: Senators, Get Thee to DC!
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, January 24 2008
As Congress considers again a new FISA update, bloggers urge Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to head back to Washington for the vote; a CREDO campaign to get voters to email Obama and Clinton about the vote allegedly ... Read More
Daily Digest: Mitt Wins, War Metaphors Abound
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, January 16 2008
Mitt Romney wins Michigan, and the war metaphors get upped a notch; it's not quite clear if Markos had any effect on the primary, and a CNN poll suggests most Dem votes went to McCain; Richard Viguerie launches a pro-Ron ... Read More
Candidate Websites = "That End of the Cow"?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, January 2 2008
We already know that most presidential candidate websites are notoriously bereft of in-depth information about the candidates, other than a few hand-picked issue memos and the usual biographical fluffery. But we didn't ... Read More
Daily Digest: What Would You Do with 71 Million Names?
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, December 11 2007
The FEC recommends that John Edwards not receive matching funds for the $4.3 million he raised on ActBlue, and DailyKos protests; a single Republican activist has a list of 71 million Christian voters, prompting the left ... Read More