Leave Online Political Analysis to the Experts

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 [...]

eDemocracyCamp: Communicating with Congress

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 [...]

Social Notworking

Okay, so “notworking” is far too strong of a term, but I couldn’t resist the catchy title.  TechPresident recently did a brief review of Hillary Clinton’s new Facebook app, mentioning that it’s pretty good but that it came around a bit late.  This got me thinking about Obama’s Facebook app and the my.barackobama.com social network.  [...]