On any given day, I've got about four or five books that I'm currently reading--or trying to finish--and I can understand why some people try to take a "reading week" (or month) where they do nothing but catch up with the piles of things that we wish we had time to read. I'm taking a break from my own piles to offer some capsule reviews of several books I did manage to read this year that cover the emerging world of technology and politics.
| Read more ...Voting Machines = Headaches
By Allison Fine
After seven years of reforms, millions of dollars in new machinery, there are so many problems with voting technology in San Francisco county that it cannot certify this election until a hand recount of ballots is completed.Campaign Web Sites, The Morning After
By Chris Casey
If campaign web sites had feelings, then on the morning after Election Day many would feel like a bride or groom left at the altar. Months of planning, buildup and being the center of attention ends abruptly in a frozen lonely stare.
After all of that work for their candidate, recruiting volunteers, raising money, building a community of supporters, and spreading campaign news, a very large number of campaign web sites freeze on Election Day. And that is a big mistake, for the winners and losers alike.
I am often told by people who "know" that, like the bl
With little fanfare the Barak Obama campaign has followed the Edwards and Hillary campaign in launching a mult
Just the other day I was talking with some colleagues wondering why there where never ever "Bushism" ringtones that become widespread.
A couple of days ago I wrote here on PDF that Hillary
The New York Post is reporting that Hillary Clinton will anounce today a “mobile-to-mobile text-messaging push” to garner support for her presidential campaign.
| Read more ...We're hard at work pulling together this year's fourth annual Personal Democracy Forum conference, which will be taking place this May 18 at Pace University in NYC along with a participant-driven unConference on the 19th, and I'm pleased to share with you the emerging schedule for the main day. (Note: what follows is subject to change.)
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