Open Source Politics
Voter-Generated Content: A Better Buzzword
BY Andrew Rasiej | Thursday, January 4 2007
It's time to coin a new term: voter-generated content. The buzzword of the day, "user-generated content," has got everyone from Madison Ave to Silicon Valley talking, and investors pouring money into start-ups galore as ... Read More
PopTech 2006: Dangerous Ideas, and Thinking About Networked Politics
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, October 23 2006
My head is still spinning pleasantly as I come down off the last few days spent up in Camden, Maine at the 10th annual PopTech conference. This was my first time at this seminal gathering of technologists, creatives, ... Read More
Meet the New Organizing -- Same as the Old Organizing?
BY Greg Bloom | Friday, September 8 2006
On the first day of the New Organizing Institute's August 28-30 summer training in Washington, DC, somewhere into the fourth or fifth hour of instruction on the fine craft of email fundraising, all the talk about ... Read More
HotSoup - Politics Without the Partisanship
BY Michael Turk | Wednesday, July 12 2006
I hate having to write this because two of the people involved are former colleagues that I really enjoyed working with, and really respect. Unfortunately, it has to be said. Two articles in major publications - the LA ... Read More
Leaving Las Vegas: Notes on YearlyKos 2006
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, June 12 2006
Congratulations are in order to Gina Cooper and her team of volunteers, as well as Markos Moulitsas and his various lieutenants, for putting together what will undoubtedly be remembered as the first major netroots ... Read More
Essembly.com: Finally, a Friendster for Politics
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, March 13 2006
Online social networks have taken off all over the United States, and indeed much of the wired world. Friendster, the granddaddy of the breed, says it has more than 24 million members, while its newer rival MySpace.com ... Read More
Community Toasts SEIU's Sliced Bread
BY Jan Frel | Thursday, January 12 2006
It was supposed to be one of the Service Employees International Union's leaps into bottom-up online consensus building, but the community blowback at the Since Sliced Bread project that broke out this week has all the ... Read More
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