http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/25722/a_new_approach_to_open_government_push_it_out_of_the_website_business
Excerpt:
"The problem with that approach is that almost by definition the various institutions that together make up the federal government are never going to be as nimble and responsive as non-profits, companies, and hackers that operate outside government. Their role is to serve as the establishment. What the article by Princeton's Ed Felten and a team of researchers from the school's Center for Information Technology Policy proposes is that government entities focus on building the infrastructure to produce and distribute data, and then leave it to more capable others to create tools that make use of the it, including mashups, wikis, and visualizations.
There are are only so many hours of the day, even in DC, and the time and energy spent building public-facing websites could be poured into a more useful kind of online publishing -- making sure the data is clean, constant, and consistent."
Monday
TechPresident: A New Approach to Open Government: Push It Out of the Website Business
Wednesday
Hugh's F---ing Hillary - TechPresident
Image from WikipediaHugh's F---ing Hillary - TechPresident
http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/23471/hugh_s_f_ing_hillary
Excerpt:
"Hugh Atkin is at it again. Here's his full-on mashup of Sarah Silverman's "I'm F---ing Matt Damon" repurposed for the Clinton-Obama battle."
Tuesday
HILLARY'S TOWN HALL: Credit Where Credit Is Due - TechPresident
HILLARY'S TOWN HALL: Credit Where Credit Is Due - TechPresident
Excerpt:
"Hillary’s town hall was significant for more prosaic reasons: It took candidate electronic town halls - and TV/Web simulcasts - mainstream."
Monday
Is the Obama Campaign a Model for Online Politics? - TechPresident
Is the Obama Campaign a Model for Online Politics? - TechPresident
Excerpt:
"Matching the communications channel to the supporter! For another view, check out this part of Zephyr Teachout's lovely stream-of-consciousness look at on-the-ground canvassing:"
Tuesday
Obama Doubles Down on YouTube
Obama Doubles Down on YouTube
Excerpt:
"Barack Obama shattered YouTube records last week with a speech that shot past Britney Spears as one of the most watched videos of the day, drawing over half a million views in total. A new video of his South Carolina victory speech was the fifth most watched video in the world on Sunday, drawing a whopping 180,000 views in its first day online."
Saturday
Ross Perot Surfaces - TechPresident
Ross Perot Surfaces - TechPresident
Excerpt:
"Jonathan Alter has a fun scoop in Newsweek: a rare interview with Ross Perot, America's most reclusive political figure. Three things jumped out at me in the interview, which was mainly about Perot's dislike of John McCain:"
http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/19644/ross_perot_surfaces
Online, Obama Starts to Beat Ron Paul - The Washington Post
Online, Obama Starts to Beat Ron Paul - The Washington Post
Excerpt:
"This week, Obama's campaign announced that it received money from 100,000 online donors in the first 15 days of the year. Though the campaign won't announced exactly how much money that is -- unlike Rep. Ron Paul, who has made his online contributions public in real time -- it's still a stunning figure, say online political observers. Wrote Joshua Levy of TechPresident, the bipartisan group blog that tracks online campaigning: "in the last two weeks alone he's averaged about 50,000 donors a week. That's darn impressive, and it looks like Barack Obama has displaced Ron Paul to become the online fundraising juggernaut of the campaign.""
Wednesday
The Democratic Race: Obama Dominating Online Organizing of Offline Events - Micah Sifry - TechPresident
The Democratic Race: Obama Dominating Online Organizing of Offline Events - Micah Sifry - TechPresident
Excerpt:
"With Nevada, South Carolina and then the February 5 mega-primary states coming up soon, I looked for events within 100 miles of Las Vegas and Raleigh, and then turned my attention to the major cities in the big primary states. The bottom line? Obama's supporters are blowing Clinton and Edwards away."
http://techpresident.personaldemocracy.com/blog/entry/19494/the_democratic_race_obama_dominating_online_organizing_of_offline_events
Micah L. Sifry - Internet Politics 101: The List vs The Network - TechPresident
Micah L. Sifry - Internet Politics 101: The List vs The Network - TechPresident
Excerpt:
"Which would you rather have: A million-member email list or a network of 25,000 bloggers and 20,000 fundraisers? A look at Clinton vs Obama's metrics leads me to one answer: a network is more powerful than a list."
http://www.techpresident.com/ - 1-08
Trippi: Unplugged in Iowa - TechPresident
Trippi: Unplugged in Iowa - TechPresident
Excerpt:
"Joe Trippi is one of the few political consultants who speaks frankly, even to the detriment of his clients, and loves democracy even more than he loves politics. I caught up with him for an hour-long conversation about his work for the John Edwards campaign, why Hillary Clinton might be the Howard Dean of 2008, and how the Iowa caucus is like the Internet."
http://www.techpresident.com/ 1-08
Tuesday
TechPresident: Daily Digest: Online Data Points to Offline Votes
TechPresident: Daily Digest: Online Data Points to Offline Votes
Excerpt:
"Last week data researcher Heather Hopkins, of Hitwise, wrote that Iowans were visiting Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee’s websites more than any other candidate sites. We know how that turned out. Now data from Hitwise and Compete, which also tracks site visits, is showing the most popular candidate sites among New Hampshire voters."
http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18805/daily_digest_online_data_points_to_offline_votes
