shouting loudly

Warning: this will be another one of those long, reflective posts.  If you hate reading people blog about the good ol’ days, skip this one. I just had a new article come out with Policy & Internet today.  It’s all about e-petitions, the role they play in the tactical repertoire of advocacy groups, and what [...]

At a recent book talk, I heard Clay Shirky speak about the internet as “mostly producing sins of commission, rather than sins of omission.”  His point, roughly speaking, is that the lowered communication costs mean that we get more of many things.  Some of those things are negative, and when we see them, we tend [...]

In the next few days, DailyKos’s new site architecture will go into beta launch.  Kos has a post up describing the new features and rationale here.  To my fellow blog researchers, if reading that post doesn’t immediately inspire at least 3 new research ideas, I would humbly suggest that you need more coffee. This is [...]