With 78% of precincts reporting, Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton 59-40. I think it’s safe to say that Barack Obama has won the Wyoming caucuses.
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After I installed the theme that I’m currently using, I realized that it doesn’t use widgets, so I’ve updated the theme to make it widget aware, as well as changed out the main photo for one that I think fits the theme better (no, it’s not the one of me, that’s just for my blog). [...]
Just a quick note to say that Facebook has changed their political description field from one of ideology (liberal, moderate, conservative) to one of party (Democrat, Republican, Green, et cetera). As a Democrat, this doesn’t matter much to me, but there are those who aren’t very happy with the current parties and would rather [...]
Or at least those willing do some research. Brian Stelter of the New York Times is something of a phenom when it comes to news about the TV industry, having started the influential blog tvnewser.com and subsequently being hired by the New York Times straight out of college, but his article on the “It’s [...]
I just wanted to do a quick review of eDemocracyCamp, the BarCamp conference that I attended earlier today. For those of you who aren’t familiar with BarCamp conferences, they are user-driven issue conferences, usually focused around Web 2.0, new media, open source software, et cetera. In other words, people volunteer to organize the [...]
Presenter: Joe Goldman
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
What would it look like to have a national discussion with 1,000,000+ people involved? – Did a pilot in 2003 & 2004
Need to engage enough people that people would take notice
Need to do it in enough places that Congresspeople would think their constituents were represented
You need to [...]
Presenters: Rob Pierson & Will Johnston
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
Topic Code for e-mail
Help Congressional offices deal with increasing volumes of e-mail
Provide a unique identifier for each new mass mail campaign
Would allow offices to aggregate all letters from a specific organization on a specific topic AND view how constituents have customized a form letter [...]
I’ll try to come back and clean this up later, add in a few links, but for now, here are the notes. WiFi is spotty here, so I can’t really liveblog anything.
Presenter: Tom Steinberg
I’ve got a more cohesive review here.
Important Note: All of this code is open source
MySociety.org - arguably runs the largest network of [...]
I’m headed eDemocracyCamp today, a conference about the use of technology and the internet in government. I just realized about 2 minutes ago that everyone who attends is supposed to do a presentation, so I’m hoping they’re not too strict about that. I may try to come up with something on the bus, but I’m [...]
