Civil Society, Text by Text
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, November 4 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in conjunction with the office of special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, is about five days into an experiment mobile phones to build civil society in ... Read More
How (Governor-Elect) Bob McDonnell Went Mobile
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, November 4 2009
Virginia's new governor-elect, Republican Bob McDonnell, ran an online campaign that caught the eyes of many who pay attention to this sort of thing. Read More
House GOP's WhipCast: Mobilizing the Minority (Updated)
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, October 29 2009
Meet WhipCast, the newly public BlackBerry application that House Republicans, led by Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia and Kevin McCarthy of California, are showing around the Hill. Politico's Mike Allen has the ... Read More
State Government in Your Pocket
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, June 23 2009
Text message "nysenate marriage" or "nysenate Adams" or "nysenate S427" to 41411 and get back a list of relevant bills or a short description of the bill in question right to your cell ... Read More
Politics Online '09: How Mobile's Different Than Web
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, April 21 2009
Apologies for the light post this morning, but I'm at the Politics Online conference in downtown DC's cavernous Ronald Reagan building where a decent wireless hookup is harder to find than natural lighting. I've decamped ... Read More
A Freed Change.gov Gets Wigitized, iPhone Apped
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, December 3 2008
Get the Change.gov widget Change.gov the website is so yesterday. Today, it's Change.gov the widget, iPhone app, and mobile tool. We noted a few days ago that online home of the Obama-Biden Transition Project had ... Read More
A Mobile Opportunity for McCain
BY Michael Tate | Wednesday, October 15 2008
Obama's campaign released an iPhone application (thanks to an all-volunteer creative base). So how can McCain catch up and prove that his campaign has tech prowess? Release their version of the application on Google's ... Read More
Reprise of $1 Million "Obama Minute," but now with Interactive Times Square Billboard
BY Michael Whitney | Sunday, October 5 2008
Last April we told you about an effort by an independent filmmaker that aimed to organize Obama supporters to donate $1 million to the candidate in under 1 minute. (They ended up raising a respectable $245,000 in a ... Read More
Ask Sarah Palin: CA Dems' Interactive Billboard Goes Live [UPDATED]
BY Micah L. Sifry | Saturday, October 4 2008
This is an absolute first and frankly it's f---ing brilliant. The California Democratic Party has a giant electronic billboard up somewhere near a Los Angeles-area rally that Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is doing ... Read More
Obama Releases iPhone App, but Why? [UPDATED]
BY Michael Whitney | Thursday, October 2 2008
Today the Obama campaign announced it released the Obama '08 iPhone app, a free application for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The app is pitched as a "a great volunteering tool that lets you make a difference any time you ... Read More