Kari Chisholm blogs about the current debate over whether Convio, a company that provides online advocacy tools, should be able to serve all non-profits, or just those with a certain agenda: Most of Convio’s current and past clients are lefty organizations – including the ACLU, Dean for America, Planned Parenthood, etc. Recently, however, they added…
BL Ochman reports: MoveOn.org, which was seeking 500,000 signatures on a petition against proposed Congress’ cancellation of funding to NPR and PBS, has now reached almost a million signatures.
CNN’s replacement for the venerable Inside Politics will include a tip of the hat to the online world, with podcasts and blogs part of the coverage. Let’s just hope they incorporate it in a less cheesy way than the current IP blog segment. CNN reports on its own format change: "The Situation Room" will be…
Did Bush win because of the Internet? MICHAEL CORNFELD KNOWS WHY George W. Bush won last year’s presidential election. Bush’s camp, said Cornfeld, used the Internet to find volunteers and then gave them information to spread–via any medium at hand–to friends and neighbors. "The Bush campaign married software to Tupperware," Cornfeld, a senior consultant with…
Washington Post reports on the gist of comments to the FEC on internet campaigning regulations. My position will not be popular with fellow bloggers, but I do believe that if a blogger is paid to blog by a campaign, that should have to be disclosed — just like real world political activities. Now, if the…
The Chicago Tribune reports on the FEC’s latest plans for regulating online political activity. And, at least as sketched out in this report, the proposal seems reasonable since it seeks to mimic "real world" requirements in cyberspace. Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online…
An intriguing press release crossed the wire recently: Next Generation Advertising, LLC, a new, non-traditional advertising company, has opened its doors. The company, based in the nation’s capital, will be one of the first to produce online "virtual" public policy campaigns. The firm is founded by former ABC and Fox News Producer Richard Pollock ……
Seth Godin is usually known for his marketing advice. But that’s fundamentally what politics ends up being all about anyway, isn’t it? In assessing a debate between David Keene and Ralph Neas over judicial nominations, he determines that Keene was believeable and on message, while Neas sounded "like a Moot Court debater." (For you lawyers…
Microsoft’s Robert Scoble frequently offers good insight and great links. But I’m afraid today his wife may be right. When he blogged today about "the world" I can only hope he intended to say "my world." RSS has totally changed how I work and how I get my information. In that sense, RSS has changed…
Kari Chisholm and Taegan Goddard both have pointed to a report in The Hill that credits John Kerry with a big advatnage because of his 3 million name email list. Kerry’s 2004 Finance Chair boasts: “There is a zero marginal cost to communicate with them,” Randlett said of voters in Kerry’s database. “He can wait…