Split by SouthWest: My SXSW 2012 Diary
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 15 2012
PDM editorial director Micah L. Sifry spent last Friday through Monday at South by SouthWest Interactive, attending panels, keynotes and hanging out. Here's his report: SXSW is still a place where sessions packed with thousands of attendees cheer for the iconoclasts and the game-changers. It is also much more of a business networking conference than an internet futurists' playpen. In short, it has a split personality. Read More
P.J. Crowley Knew What He Was Doing
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, April 19 2011
That's the takeaway from a new profile piece by Ben Smith that highlights Crowley's blunt way of engaging in public dialogue, a trait that ultimately led to his resignation of White House spokesperson: At the State ... Read More
Tweeting Without the Title
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, April 6 2011
P.J. Crowley -- whom you might remember from his tenure as the spokesperson for the U.S. State Department that ended with his resignation after he called the Defense Department's treatment of alleged Wikileaks leaker ... Read More
Citizen Crowley Tweets
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, March 17 2011
Answering the question of what happens to a U.S. State Department spokesperson's Twitter account when the spokesperson is no longer a spokesperson, P.J. Crowley posts a note: "I am humbled by the support and ... Read More
In a World Where P.J. Crowley Gets the Boot...
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, March 15 2011
Over on HuffPo, our Micah Sifry argues that the resignation of the State Department spokesperson should make anyone who works in the government social media space wonder why they bother. Read More
Philippa Thomas, P.J. Crowley, and the Power of the Blog
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, March 14 2011
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Quote of the Day: An Era With No Secrets
BY Nick Judd | Friday, March 11 2011
There are leaks everywhere in Washington – it’s a town that can’t keep a secret. But the scale is different. It was a colossal failure by the DoD to allow this mass of documents to be transported outside the ... Read More
Alarm Worthy: 10:30 ET Today...State Dept. and CDT..."Internet Freedom"
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, February 18 2011
State Department's Crowley Argues Wikileaks Isn't Internet Freedom
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, January 12 2011