What's after YouTube for politics?
Zephyr Teachout has a great op-ed in the Washington Post today about the future of campaigning. She talks about some interesting ideas like mobile political affinity software, political accountability...
View ArticleRootsCampNYC Recap
On saturday I attended RootsCampNYC, and unconference dedicated to debriefing on the elections with a decidedly technological flavor. I shot some video with a Samsung SC-210 digital video camera (that...
View ArticleObama MySpace Snafu
TechPresident features a few posts from Micah Sifry on the recent Obama MySpace snafu. The short of it is this: volunteer makes a Barak Obama MySpace profile in 2004. Over time that profile grows to...
View ArticleLeague of Conservation Voters Presidential Ads
The LCV is raising money to run two advertisements for the presidential race. The ads don't favor any particular candidate, rather aim to raise possibly the most important issue facing American's...
View ArticleOpen Source and the Argument for Opening the Debates
If there's a theme for this election, it's "Change". I actually don't think change is going to come. It's already here. It's a foregone conclusion that the White House will be "Differently Occupied" in...
View ArticleAlaska is the Earkmark State #1 per capita!! - IS THIS THING ON?
Sarah Palin didn't care about Country First when she was running for governor extolling the praise of a certain corrupt Alaskan senator in bringing the country's common wealth to Alaska to be poured...
View ArticleObama Advertising in 18 Video Games During Final Election Month
Obama takes the lead with another emerging technology: temporarily embedding advertising inside video games. The technology is only 18 months old, and Obama is the first presidential candidate to buy...
View ArticleSocial Media & Election Monitoring
It goes without saying that we at CivicActions have been watching the presidential race with a passion that borders on addiction. We have also been excited by recent developments and new uses of...
View ArticleAdvanced Voting with the Decisions Drupal Module
One of the reasons I'm excited to vote this week is the introduction of Ranked Choice Voting in my hometown of Oakland, California. I like Ranked Choice Voting because it allows voters to express their...
View ArticleWhat's In A Word? Changing One Word Increases Voter Turnout
A new study by social psychologist Christopher Bryan and his colleagues at Stanford University shows how changing a single word - from "Vote" to "Voter" can increase voter turnout by as much as 10%....
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