Twitter is Down - Now What?

A quick tutorial for the uninitiated. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that asks you the question, “What are you doing now?” (Or “What were you doing?” if you believe @davidrussell.) It’s widely used by people interested in technology and serves as a combination IM/forum for the discussion of the latest trends and tips [...]

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: MySociety - MySociety.org

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 [...]

eDemocracyCamp

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 [...]

The Next Big Thing?

So, my question is, what does it take for a website to become the next big thing? I recently launched polfeeds.com, which syndicates the RSS feeds produced by politicians.  I thought (and still think) that it was a pretty good idea.  It makes easily accessible a lot of information that a lot of people [...]