First POST: Snark vs. Smarm
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, December 6 2013
Tom Scocca's must-read "On Smarm"; Upworthy had 87 million visitors last month; President Obama promises NSA reforms; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Root Causes
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, October 10 2013
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus: Just how far has the Obama administration strayed from its promise to be the most open and transparent in history?; how government procurement practices led to the HealthCare.gov mess; Ari Fleischer's Twitter meltdown; and much, much more. Read More
Sean Parker: New Technology Can Diminish The Dominance Of Money In Politics
BY Sarah Lai Stirland | Tuesday, March 13 2012
Sean Parker's string of investments in the political technology space in recent years are rooted in the belief that lowering the cost of electioneering is the key to diminishing the corrupting influence of money in ... Read More
Malcolm Gladwell: It Wasn't Liberté, Égalité, Facebook, Now Was It?
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 30 2011
In an interview on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, Malcolm Gladwell re-ups on the idea that the social nature of modern communications doesn't have much to do with revolutions. "I can't look in the past at social ... Read More
At TED, Al Jazeera's Wadah Khanfar Celebrates the Networked Arab World's Homegrown Revolutions
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, March 4 2011
The Internet vs the TSA: Is Civil Disobedience Next?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, November 15 2010
Is America on the verge of an airport travelers rebellion against the Transportation Safety Agency (TSA)? Read More
Facebook Politics Comes to Pepper Pike
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, October 7 2010
I wondered, can online politics be local? In a comment, Jill Zimon, recently-elected member of the Pepper Pike (OH) City Council, says, yes, absolutely: Read More
Can Online Politics Be Local?
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, October 5 2010
What makes "Facebook politics" inadaquete, muses Princeton's Julian Zelizer, is that it's not tied to particular spot on the map, which has always been the point around which social organizing pivots: The most ... Read More
Which Revolution Will Be Twittered?
BY Alan Rosenblatt | Saturday, October 2 2010
Cross posted from Huffington Post "The revolution will not be televised," said Gil Scott Heron. He was right. Television did not end the Vietnam War and create global peace. But television did expose our nation to the ... Read More
Strong Ties, Weak Ties and Obama's "New Reality"
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, October 1 2010
Former chief Obama campaign blogger Sam Graham-Felsen has a nice post up on Huffington Post today that's worth a read. It's notable especially because it validates a very tough criticism of Obama's political strategy ... Read More