December 2008
Laying Groundwork for Post-Inaugural Citizen... →
The inauguration arm of the Obama transition is organizing a “national day of service” on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend — itself established as a time to contribute a little something…
Daily Digest: →
The Daily Digest will be taking a long weekend to ring in 2009 and will return Monday. Have a safe and happy start to what should prove to be an exciting year.
A Connected White…
Transition video views →
Micah and I were just playing around with some TubeMogul video-traffic charts for the YouTube channel of the transition team — which includes not only the weekly video “fireside chats” that Obama…
War and social media: Israel's public diplomacy on... →
Israel’s social media offensives — on Twitter and on YouTube — in the days since the start of air attacks in Gaza includes attempts that seemed aim at winning the war of public opinion on the idea…
Politics is Viral -- AND Local →
Cross-posted on e.politics
An online politics wrap-up article by Jose Antonio Vargas published in the Post this weekend has been working its way through the internet politics crowd over the…
War and social media: Israel's public diplomacy on... →
Israel’s social media offensives — on Twitter and on YouTube — in the days since the start of air attacks in Gaza includes attempts that seemed aim at winning the war of public opinion on the idea…
Daily Digest: Remodeling Change.gov, from Inside... →
Open for Questions, Iterated and Improved: Launched at yesterday lunchtime, the second round of Change.gov’s Open for Questions — the Obama transition team’s attempt to tap into the…
Daily Digest: This Year in Personal Politics →
“Politics is Personal. Politics is Viral. Politics is Individual.”: Jose Antonio Vargas has been covering the intersection of politics and technology for the Washington Post since February…
David Plouffe: The Obama Campaign Used Grassroots... →
Cross-posted on e.politics
A week or two ago, I happened to catch the C-Span broadcast of a fascinating discussion at Harvard’s Kennedy School — PBS’s Gwen Ifill moderated a panel including…
Daily Digest: @obamacouldlearnsomething from... →
The Daily Digest will be taking a break tomorrow and Friday for the Christmas holiday, and will return on Monday. We at PdF and techPresident wish you a happy and healthy holiday season.
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Social Media and the Federal Government: ... →
(We recently posted a white paper from the Federal Web Managers Council detailing how the incoming presidential administration should focus on “putting citizens first” when it comes to the web….
Daily Digest: On Blogosphere Imaging, SEC's XBRL,... →
Imaging the Blogosphere: Ars Technica’s Julian Sanchez has a fascinating report on models of the blogosphere’s many-tendriled thought sharing that go far beyond information-thin “A is…
What's In a (Standardized) Name →
Down in DC a few weeks ago, a friend of mine had the gall to say, “you know, you’re not only a politics geek, you’re a real geek geek.” The nerve of the guy. This post isn’t going to lessen my geek…
Blogging, Bounded →
(In an ongoing experiment, we sometimes repost and slightly expand upon compelling item covered in the Daily Digest. This is one. — the editors)
The Center for American Progress (CAP) Action…
Daily Digest: GOP Luddism, Think-Tank Blogging,... →
And Then There Was One: With sitting Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan signing on to the tech-fueled Rebuild the Party movement, South Carolina GOP head Katon Dawson…
Nefarious Doings in Allowing Change.gov? We Think... →
Whatever you think of the eight long years of the Bush Administration, it has - thus far - seemed a model of cooperation in the transition to its successor. That gracious and practical spirit…
Daily Digest: 'Net Love as Litmus Test →
GOP Hopefuls Woo Red State: The conservative online hub Red State has issued a call for the men and women eager to be the next head of the Republican National Convention to come to the…
Counting Heads, Not Dollars: A New Campaign... →
(Laura is the deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Social Justice at New York University Law School. We’re thrilled to have her analysis of how we should best think…
The Internet is TV. Twitter is the Internet. →
I’ve been thinking a bit about the relative pecking order of new media since I posted on the relative second-tier status of Twitter last week. This thinking led me to blurt out the following on…
Bureaucrats for Change: Why Obama's Inherited Web... →
Reading Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government, the brief transition white paper posted by the Web Content Managers Forum, the network of Federal online managers, one challenge…
Daily Digest: Barney, Building Blocks, and the... →
The Inside View on Revolutionizing .Gov: Dozens of senior web managers spanning federal agencies from USDA to HUD to NASA to EPA to ASDF (okay, we made that last one up) have penned a…
Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Govt... →
[With the federal government in transition, and high expectations for the Obama Administration to revolutionize how government uses the web and other technology to make its processes more open,…
Daily Digest: Health Care's Unwelcomed House... →
Pfizer Would Like to Be Invited Over: Yeah, we probably should have seen this coming from a mile away. The Obama transition launched a series of house parties and community events to be…
Pulling Off Houdini's Trick →
On election day, 2008, the Obama campaign experimented with a new system designed to fix one of the strategic problems that can plague election efforts: not knowing which…
Daily Digest: The "Obama Internet" Moment? →
The “Obama Internet” Moment?: The New York Times editorial board is urging President-elect Obama to embrace the idea that restoring the U.S.’s rightful place at the vanguard of the…
Daily Digest: As the Dust Settles from Net... →
Messiness Over Neutrality: There’s a dust-up over network neutrality that we’ll do our darnedest to encapsulate in one bullet point. Ready? Let’s go. Google, reported the Wall Street…
Latest Report on Communicating with Congress:... →
The Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) just released their latest report, “Communicating with Congress: Recommendations for Improving the Democratic Dialogue.” In their words, the current…
OFA 2.0 Still A Work in (Hidden) Progress →
More than two-thirds of the 500,000 Obama volunteers who responded to an online survey asking about their interest in future activities in the wake of their involvement with the campaign responded…
Where Change.gov Meets USA.gov →
Open government web wonks and digital politics geeks (and really, why else would be you be here?) have been fascinated with the stylish online transition “campaign” waged at Change.gov by the…
McCain Campaign Closing Oops - Selling... →
FOX 5 of Washington D.C. went to the McCain/Palin campaign fire sale in Arlington, Virginia on Thursday and purchased a couple of dead Blackberries. After powering them up with new batteries, the…
Kudos to the Change.gov New Media Team →
It’s worth taking a moment to applaud the work of Macon Phillips and the other members of the Obama transition new media team, for how they have hit the ground running and built a dynamic,…
Daily Digest: Is What Obama Knows of Us Worth... →
Obama Campaign Knows What You Did Last Summer: That the Obama campaign has a meticulously-gathered collection of data on our shoe sizes and coffee preferences stored in some pulsating…
More Hints from Chicago on Obama For America 2 →
News continues to dribble out of Chicago on the future of Obama for America. First, Obama blogger Christopher Hass says there are now some 4,000 house parties occurring this weekend across the…
Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics... →
On YouTube: Can the public ask the questions rather than Helen Thomas, and let the press do the followup? (Imagine Change.gov as a public press conference). The President should know what Americans…
Daily Digest: America Has a Few (Thousand) Things... →
Transition is Open for Questions — Most of Them, At Least: Change.gov’s Open for Questions feature opened for business just yesterday morning, as I reported. Already, its first…
Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics... →
This morning, the Harvard Internet & Politics conference continues with two “deep dives” into the McCain and Obama campaigns. We continue to operate under Chatham House Rules, so the following…
Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics... →
This morning, the Harvard Internet & Politics conference continues with two “deep dives” into the McCain and Obama campaigns. We continue to operate under Chatham House Rules, so the following…
Open for Questions: Meh or Yay? →
Say what you will about the jobs section on Change.gov not ultimately leading to any actual, you know, employment or how Tom Daschle seemed to scan the first page of…
Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics... →
In the afternoon, the conference broke into four separate groups generally discussing the “networked public sphere.” Jonathan Zittrain is leading the debrief of the group with Ana Marie Cox’s help.
Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics... →
Examining the Networked Public Sphere in Recent Elections
A conversation with Yochai Benkler & Eszter Hargittai
(We’re transitioning from the morning’s focus on the role of the Internet in field…
LiveBlogging from Berkman: Organizing in an Age of... →
Andrew Rasiej and I are in Cambridge, MA today and tomorrow at the Berkman Center’s “Internet Politics 2008” conference. Several techPresident contributors are here, including Gene K., Ari M.,…
Daily Digest: Dems Give FCC Chief a Swift Kick on... →
House Democrats Pick Apart the FCC: The Democratic side of the House Energy and Commerce Committee under John Dingell (for now) has issued a 110-page condemnation of the reign of…
Voting Reform Beyond '08 →
Took a quick break from the GiveList to attend the Pew Center on Voting’s conference called Voting in America- The Road Ahead.
My first impression having watched and participated in voting…
Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics... →
I’m here at the Internet & Politics conference at Harvard University, co-hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Institute of Politics. The purpose of
this event is to gather…
Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics... →
Networked Organizations and Mobilization
Again, these sessions are officially under Chatham House rules.
What’s transformational about the technology? Beyond efficiencies, what’s profoundly…
Blagojevich Circus Lights Up the Web →
Suddenly we’ve gone from wondering about the next iteration of Change.gov to wondering about the real identity of Senate Candidate Five, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald dubbed the mystery Illinois…
Report from Chicago: "We're Making This Up As We... →
Some information is starting to filter out of this past weekend’s “summit” in Chicago of about 300 key organizers from Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign (evenly divided between regional field directors,…
Daily Digest: Microfundraising Meets Conservative... →
Online Right Spins Twitter Web: Republican State Assemblyman Chuck Devore of California is the subject of compelling online experiment as he attempts to unseat sitting Senator Barbara…
Report: U.S. Needs to Put Cybersecurity on the... →
The United States government is acting like the befuddled Soviets in Dr. Strangelove, says a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies — keeping its cybersecurity…
Some Interesting Finds from the Emerging Issues... →
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the Emerging Issues Policy Forum in Jacksonville, Florida. This was an odd event. I was attending on behalf of the day job, but I was talking about how…