Archive for September, 2008

Follow-Up to Millenials at the Gates

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Rather than respond in the comments to a question from JK on my last post at K Street Cafe, Millennials at the Gates, asking for evidence of the reshaping of American politics, I will respond here.
I understand JK’s hesitation about waiting for the evidence. After all, I was a full-time academic for many years. […]

Misrepresenting Twitter Behavior

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

The Next Right has decided to play on people’s ignorance of how Twitter works to disparage the Obama campaign. They claim that BarackObama (Twitter account) is “voluntarily” following Sarah Palin’s Vagina on Twitter.

Bogus!

K Street Cafe Launches

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I am excited to announce a new blog project called K Street Cafe. I have joined a team of great online advocacy experts to write about best (and worst) practices in online advocacy. Take a look at all the great people writing there!

Millennials at the Gates

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The coming of age of the Millennial Generation, the first civic generation since the GI Generation (dubbed the Greatest by Tom Brokaw), is converging with the arrival of the most civic-friendly communication technologies we have ever seen.  And with this convergence, American politics is being reshaped.  That was the message delivered […]