Campaigns & Elections
Voting Machines = Headaches
BY Allison Fine | Tuesday, November 20 2007
On September 20th, I spied a small article in the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline, "S.F. election results won’t be known for weeks." The Secretary of State of California, Debra Bowen, determined that ES&S ... Read More
Barack Obama's Mystifying Web Presence
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, January 18 2007
Barack Obama announced his exploratory committee this week, posting a Flash video of the announcement on his web site. Given his rhetoric about listening to the American people I was curious to see how he was using ... Read More
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
Open Standards for Online Advocacy Tools
BY Ben Schaffer | Tuesday, December 12 2006
[Eds. note: Over the past decade a major industry has arisen to provide technology solutions to political campaigns and advocacy groups. These vendors, or what we call "software-as-a-service providers," offer a wide ... Read More
Rules for Using MySpace in Politics
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, December 4 2006
This year, a handful of web sites and technologies that had been reshaping the cultural, economic, and political landscape finally made a tangible dent on American politics. Among other things, videos posted on YouTube ... Read More
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