Misadventures in Politics

Cross-posted on e.politics

Here’s a clever idea — install a web browser toolbar sponsored by the Republican National Committee and you can raise money for the RNC “through normal online…

The Web on the Candidates

• At the bleeding edge of citizen journalism is OffTheBus, a project of the Huffington Post, and in this, the month of its one-year anniversary, OTB gets the New York…

The Web on the Candidates

• Ha, this is a great defense from the Prince of Darkness, a.k.a. Bob Novak, about how he was pretty much solely responsible for propagating the idea that John McCain…

The Web on the Candidates

• Attendees at Netroots Nation picked out a somewhat different set of priorities for themselves than they did for the next president, according to a straw poll from…

The Web on the Candidates

• Netroots Nation and RightOnline both drew to a close in Austin this weekend. And it’s looking a lot like the left’s netroots has made the leap from fish swimming…

I’ve been thinking a little bit about the puzzle of meaningfully covering live political events, be they city council meetings, agency meetings, or legislative events.

I looked into this a few…

Cross-posted on e.politics

On the first day of Netroots Nation, Chris Hughes and friend-of-e.politics (and new Obama campaign employee) Judith Freeman led an overview of how the nominee-to-be’s…

The Web on the Candidates

• The Heritage Foundation’s Rob Bluey laments that being a conservative at a tech/politics gatherings is “too often…quite lonely.” But this week, at least, Rob will…