Hardware Risk: China Targets PC Manufacturers
What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?
What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?
Ari Melber | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics
It is early, but so far, OFA's legislative "organizing" efforts run the risk of being boring, vague and redundant.
Ari Melber | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
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.
Suren Ramasubbu | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living
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.
Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 01.27.2009 | Media
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 12.18.2008 | Media
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 12.10.2008 | Politics
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 11.24.2008 | Media
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 10.27.2008 | Home
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.
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media
New Media enables people to communicate with each other as they engage in the political process -- the days of pandering to isolated audiences are over.
Josh Silver | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media
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.
RJ Eskow | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media
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 07.18.2008 | Politics
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 06.26.2008 | Home
For quite awhile now, I have thought that the netroots affair with Obama would not end well.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
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.
Peter Daou | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
I've always felt honored to represent Hillary online and I'm proud to have worked with an exceptional Internet team at her campaign. I'm also thrilled to see the creative and innovative use of the Internet by Senator Obama.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
In the June 2008 Atlantic, Marc Ambinder, touching on the remarkable success the Obama campaign has had leveraging the power of online social networki...
Posted 04.28.2008 | Home
The roster of Democratic Party superdelegates is a list of Very Serious People with years of political experience. Also on the list are college kids Lauren and Awais. Watch their YouTube and help them vote.
Micah Sifry | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
If not for the internet, and all the campaign- and voter-generated activism it has enabled, Hillary would already be the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee.
Kristin Gorski | Posted 01.21.2008 | Home
While traditional media outlets excel in wordiness during election season, one social media outlet proudly flaunts its brevity. Twitter is a free "mic...
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Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 06.10.2009 | World