Even as an increasing number of Americans go online for political news, more than half of U.S. Internet users are wary of the web’s influence and vi...
Terry Lozoff | Posted 05.25.2011
A short visit to America Speaking Out and any social media pro can quickly spot the social sharing best practices that are being put to use. That said, the site falls short in a few key areas.
Cheryl Contee | Posted 05.25.2011
During the Iranian election protests, citizens showed the world what was happening in their country, and the world discovered a government that was de-legitimized in the eyes of its people.
Micah Sifry | Posted 05.25.2011
While we all agree the internet is changing politics, can it fix politics too? Can it make politics more open, participatory, responsive and accountable?
Tim Chambers | Posted 05.25.2011
Two lessons politicos should learn from the new time zone: 1) Watch the conversation in real time. 2) Though political fortunes can turn sour faster than ever before, just as quickly they can turn positive.
Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011
In the same week that Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina launched an attack site against party rival "Taxin' Tom" Campbell, Democrats put her squarely in their crosshairs with an online hit-job of their own.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011
The Web is flat. Online, using social media, we've become each others' witnesses -- both in spreading the news of the Haitian earthquake and in responding to the tremendous need. And also in accounting for 4,000 Americans still missing.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who can serve as the Web's first global diplomat, delivered the most important speech about Internet freedom given by a top U.S. official.
Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011
Are Democrats doomed in 2010, with an energized Republican Party capitalizing on a backlash against a young president's ambitious agenda to seize control of Congress a la 1994?
Suren Ramasubbu | Posted 11.17.2011
A self-organizing Internet safety social network would have seemed impossible a decade ago, but in the age of social media, this type of collaboration seems the natural way to go about the task.
Nicole Williams | Posted 11.17.2011
It's great if you have a fabulous job where you get to travel, get chauffeured around in fancy cars, and take meetings with bigwigs. But it's a lot cooler if you don't broadcast it.
Mark Jeffrey | Posted 05.25.2011
If you are a common carrier -- and you are not China or Iraq -- then you'd better behave in a fashion that supports full, open and transparent communication.
Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 05.25.2011
What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
For Internet politics, the controversial becomes conventional very quickly. This Sunday's New York Times Book Review has a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom.
Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 05.25.2011
The Obama campaign and the newly emerging rightroots movement are grounded in the egalitarian principles of new media. This new media can reverse the course of business as usual.
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
Arianna Huffington and Ashton Kutcher discuss how the Internet is changing politics, Kutcher's new-media efforts and the Huffington Post's plans for the future.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
What mighty contests rise from trivial things! Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock The Internet is rapidly proving itself the best friend of ...
Jimmy Leach | Posted 05.25.2011
During my short stint as head of digital communications for the Prime Minister, there wasn't a lack of will to try new ways of directly interacting with the citizens of the UK, but it didn't necessarily lead to a higher quality of debate or better outcomes.
Linda Hansen | Posted 05.25.2011
Internet Obama supporters are no saints. But Campaign 2008, to them, means something more than an outlet for the anger they've been swallowing for the past eight years. Their emails ring like testimonies at an interfaith revival meeting.
Josh Silver | Posted 05.25.2011
FCC Commissioner McDowell suggests that any FCC decision that supports Net Neutrality -- the idea that the Internet must be free and open -- is somehow tantamount to government regulation of content.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
The Right's winning the email war, which could prove decisive. It would be ironic if, after all these innovations, Democrats were beaten by a tool that's so crude yet effective.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
At today's Netroots Nation panel, "From Dean To Obama: Four Years In the Internet Revolution," Joe Trippi, late of the John Edwards campaign, had an a...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
For quite awhile now, I have thought that the netroots affair with Obama would not end well.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011
So we cannot afford to lose tens of billions of dollars in state and local tax revenues by exempting internet sales. But even if it were affordable, there is no good economic reason to do so.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
In the June 2008 Atlantic, Marc Ambinder, touching on the remarkable success the Obama campaign has had leveraging the power of online social networki...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.29.2011