I interviewed Jacob Soboff, creator of the Why Tuesday advocacy campaign. The organization set out to change the national voting day from Tuesday to the weekend in an effort to build greater voter participation.
Craig Newmark | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
The deal is that any info that the government publishes should be online. Not okay to print and bury someplace where it's hard to find.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media
Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media
The Personal Democracy Forum has become one of the few truly indispensable annual gatherings, devoted to the nexus of politics, media and technology.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
"Change is only going to come about when people have the power to act upon the knowledge that they will acquire through the new technology," says former Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel.
Andy Plesser | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media
TubeMogul helps distribute and analyze web videos. Said TubeMogul executive David Burch, "We're very excited to see how technology's changing politics."
Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky and Adam Clark Estes | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
The Internet has transformed the way citizens interact with their government. The basic ability to access a piece of legislation online revolutionized...
Eric Kuhn | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media
The on-line and on-air campaign, anchored by Ning-based CommunityofVeterans.org, was established to support veterans coming home. The first quarter brought in $26 million in donated media.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
Nerds -- and I say that with the utmost respect -- are changing the lives of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
If the internet is the backbone of free speech and participation, how can it be owned by corporate interests whose primary concern isn't freedom or self expression or political dissent?
Craig Newmark | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
I don't have a good way to say it, but there are hundreds of people here committed to make government and governance work. I'm overwhelmed.Check out t...
Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky and Adam Clark Estes | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, the dialogue at the Personal Democracy Forum conference at Lincoln Center in New York ranged from focused conversations on the MySpace/Face...
Ari Melber | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
Local events used to be the only way for a president to hear directly from citizens, but network technology has opened up our civic possibilities. It's past time we used these tools to open up the Presidency.
Danny Schechter | Posted 01.13.2009 | Media
The Obama campaign built a ten million person email list with millions of phone numbers that can be texted. What a potentially powerful political resource if put to use.
Huff TV | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
Arianna was interviewed at the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum: ...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
It's fitting to commemorate Independence Day by broadening our focus this week beyond the consumer, to the citizen. They are after all, the same person.
Sarah Granger | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
A President Obama would very likely improve on the current approach to transparency, epitomized by a White House site where the latest citizen Q&A was posted on the "interactive" page on 3/26/06.
Lee Camp | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
Most reporters ask the same questions. Meena from Al Jazeera was different. She really wanted to know about "citizen journalism," and made me think all over again about the "citizen" part of the equation.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
For quite awhile now, I have thought that the netroots affair with Obama would not end well.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
I'm speaking on a panel titled "Reinventing Political Media." Not surprisingly, few of the media being "reinvented" show up for what sounds like a dousing of Chinese Cultural Revolution-style re-education.
Sarah Granger | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
"McCain doesn't use a computer. I mean, I would try explaining email, Facebook, Twitter -- massive social movements -- to your grandmother and ask her to apply that to governing and see if that would work for you."
Steve Young | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
Picture from the genius of Elliot Curson Einstein said that in the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. Would it be that the e=mc2 guy would...
Huff TV | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Arianna was interviewed at the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum: ...
Sarah Granger | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home
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Andy Plesser | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media