Dr. DigiPol

I am sure many of you have heard that cancelling an AOL account can be quite a nightmare. For those of you who missed it, there is a wonderful piece on one blogger’s experience on Insignificant Thoughts and the audio recording of his experience cancelling his AOL account is on Putfile.com.
One would think that […]

Senator Tubes is at it again. The man who doesn’t get his internets fast enough because his tubes are clogged wants to strip the heart of the internet out of our libraries and schools. No more social networking sites. No more MySpace. No more Facebook. No more any site with […]

I have been talking up a storm lately at conferences about User 2.0. I am also writing more in depth analyses of the notion, but wanted to start a conversation sooner here.

This question has been used as the benchmark for the arrival of the internet in electoral politics. Those viewing the world this way often point to Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign and say, “Close, but no cigar.” But a much better question is, “Will a candidate without an internet strategy ever win the presidency […]

I am sitting here at the opening plenary session for iFOCOS’s We Media conference in Miami (Florida, not Ohio). Driven by a belief that the internet puts the power of the media and all its related civic engagement opportunities into the hands of ordinary people, this conference explores how new digital opportunities for the […]

Thousands of voters gathered at George Mason University to hear Barack Obama. What is most remarkable about this event is that it was largely organizaed using Facebook.com (note, PW required to view), the online social network of millions of students across the country.
The Facebook profile was created by a Barack supporter. He laid […]