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- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama"Democracy cannot exist without strong differences"I disagree. Seems to me that democracy works in a consensus environment just fine. What it does require, though, is toleration for differences in opinion and the ability of citizens to say what they think without fear of...
- Tags: Obama, Netroots Nation, Netroots
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Trippi: Netroots will be critical on Feb. 5
- Trippi: Netroots will be critical on Feb. 5Bubba hub in the house would be cool!I am on for Hillary, why? .............. BeCause she comes pardon the expression with her husband, Bill, Bubba, The Man! The country needs some comic, but competent, relief after 8 years of dick head and...
- Tags: Trippi, Netroots
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
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- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- At Netroots, relations warming with Obama
- The netroots are still pissed over Sen. Barack Obama's vote for the FISA capitulation compromise legislation, but relations are warming up again. At the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, bloggers were lining up to do their part for an Obama victory, the Washington Post reports. Said...
- Tags: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Netroot, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Debate over telecom immunity starts anew
- Debate over telecom immunity starts anewnetroots and the FISA debateIt's fun to watch what local political bloggers are saying about FISA and their senators.http://www.blognetnews.com/central/RE: Debate over telecom immunity starts anewCheney's argument is the same one used to try to justify letting Hitler's cohorts off the hook at the Nuremberg trials...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecom immunity, telecommunications, government, Cheney
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Trippi: Netroots will be critical on Feb. 5
- The Nation has an interview with Joe Trippi, Howard Dean's ex-campaign manager, now with the Edwards campaign. It's a web-only article, no doubt because - despite the fact that it was "edited for length and clarity" - it's still a rambling, hard to follow braindump. Even so,...
- Tags: Campaign, Media, Howard Dean, Nation, Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Internet issues in their political context
- As I wrote yesterday and have written before the Internet and choices surrounding it are becoming a subtext to the 2008 political campaign. Also, open source depends on an open Internet to succeed. So it makes sense to give you the lay of the...
- Tags: History, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Here's the main issue Ron Paul's netroots supporters need to understand- but don't
- Here's the main issue Ron Paul's netroots supporters need to understand- but don'tLibertarianism Mis UnderstoodShaw writes: "A key purpose of laws and regulation should be to keep the powerful out of your pockets."Exactly.One of the classic misunderstandings of libertarianism - and I blame libertarians for this problem - is...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Shaw, central issue, Ron Paul, federal government, regulation
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Here's the main issue Ron Paul's netroots supporters need to understand- but don't
- I affirm, I really was going to drop this Ron Paul rant I pursued in my earlier post.But some facts in this morning's post by my highly respected Washington, D.C.-centric colleague Declan McCullagh entitled Ron Paul: The Internet's Favorite Candidate" made me realize there are some lessons that...
- Tags: Republican, Regulation, Cable, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Edwards e-campaign: Spin without substance?
- After a New York Times article heralded the Edwards campaign as Dean 2.0, online organizer Erik Os writes in The Hill that Edwards' e-campaign credentials are vastly overstated.Crunching the numbers, Os finds the Edwards campaign coming up short. Edwards raised only $9 million from all avenues in the second quarter...
- Tags: Elections
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Trippi returns as Edwards adopts a massively Internet campaign
- Trippi returns as Edwards adopts a massively Internet campaignJohn Edwards - netroots or astroturf?Numerous web politics observers have greeted Adam Nagourney's article as a lot of hype with little in the way of hard numbers. The real story is that John Edwards' online efforts have fallen far short of their...
- Tags: Channel management, Internet, John Edwards, Trippi
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- Seeking political advantage in open source
- John Edwards may be winning nothing more than Iowa and the netroots primary, but he is notable in being the first Presidential candidate to mention open source in his political campaign. (Picture from Hedgefunddomain.)His campaign told the Open Voting Consortium last week he supports requiring open source code in voting...
- Tags: telecom, politics, Microsoft, Legal, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- Bloggers no fan of Clinton - but does it matter?
- Bloggers no fan of Clinton - but does it matter?I doubt itAt best, a blog represents the writers it attracts, which its editors hope will attract enough readers to attract the advetisers to pay its editors. But no blog can remain coherent without alienating some partisans (who tend to regard...
- Tags: Blogging, Web, Hillary, blog, American men, Obama, middle class
- Discussion threads 2007-05-14
- Bloggers no fan of Clinton - but does it matter?
- Sam Stein, writing at The Politico, identifies Hilary Clintons "blogger problem" but wonders if it makes a difference. Are politicians and politics-watchers losing perspective with their obsesson with the "netroots" when they should be watching their base? “Her model of doing politics is based on pandering to individual groups,”...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamber
- Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamberAs you know, you’ve already advocated the largest step- Wanting to changeSuggestions:Bear in mind that your chosen area of debate ranges over considerable areas - e.g. hardware and software. Many applications thereof. What might best suit: individuals; developers; users; smaller organisations; larger organisations;...
- Tags: UNIX, salesman, Internet, Air America
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamber
- Ever since Leon Festinger first formulated his theory of cognitive dissonance people have, usually reluctantly, accepted the reality that we seek out information confirming our beliefs while actively avoiding contrary information. The obvious lesson for people who are aware of this is...
- Tags: Unanswered questions, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- The twits are twittering on Twitter
- The twits are twittering on TwitterYou really are full of yourself aren't you?"There's nothing intellectually more insignificant than a blog and Twitter is simply a multi platform bulletin board which enables people to express themselves."Well that may be true for you... and apparently ZDNet that actually pays you to wright...
- Tags: Blogging, Twitter, blog, twit
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- Lieberman defeat a win for 'Netroots' politics?
- Lieberman defeat a win for 'Netroots' politics?Democracy cannot work in America......unless you register and vote.We can get bogged down in all of the "reasons" why Lieberman lost this particular election and why people don't vote because of all of the problems in politics.The candidate who is "most likely" to win...
- Tags: Lamont, Internet, Lieberman Software Corp, X-ers, voter
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
- Clinton hires a blogger
- Links between Democrats and bloggers are getting stronger. A month after the Yearly Kos conference, where Demo bigwigs addressed and scraped to the netroot elite, Hillary Clinton has hired Salon blogger Peter Daou as a blogger-evangelist. His new job, he says, is "to facilitate and expand her relationship with the...
- Tags: blogger
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- As silly season nears, what impact will bloggers have on Election 2006?
- As the Congressional campaign season starts in earnest, some Washington eyes are turning to the blogosphere for a preview of the usual Democratic squabble - the leftists vs the centrists. As in 2004, the questions are how much fund-raising power to bloggers and online advocacy groups have - and can...
- Tags: Democratic, blogger
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
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