Innovation Online Politics

I've been looking for lessons from history regarding social media, and found a nerd/policy wonk partnership that was enormously successful: Johanness Gutenberg invented mass media, via the printing press, but it didn't go anywhere for a while.

There's the White House that's framed by the non-stop, tit-for-tat coverage of the mainstream press and bloggers. Then there's the White House that's ...

*UPDATED* The iPhone has welcomed a new free app, and it belongs to the White House. "Today, we're excited to announce the new White House App avail...

Is there another American political figure who's been so right, so prescient, about so many things -- and, in turn, so loathed by a consistent vocal opposition? No, there's only one Al Gore.

This is an excerpt of a wide-ranging, three-hour interview with Al Gore, touching on the impact of technology and the Internet in politics; the state of the mainstream media and the left and right blogosphere; the role of the Web in his crusade on climate change, among others topics.