shouting loudly

In the past few weeks, I’ve been blogging from alternate locations.  Here’s a collection of  links: August 14, Huffington Post, “Narrative Power and the Predictability of Electoral Prediction Markets.” September 3, Mobilizing Ideas, essay contribution to their “September dialogue: Ground Wars and the 2012 Election.”* September 5, Oxford University Press Blo, “An Anatomy of #Eastwooding.” [...]

Yesterday morning, I wrote my first piece for the Huffington Post.  I also posted a note to the Blogosphere Authority Index site, explaining that the rankings have been suspended while I tinker with the tracking system.*  There’s a relationship between the two.  Take a look at the toolbar listing under “share this story” in the [...]

As expected, today Americans Elect announced the suspension of their online caucuses.  A weekend of cyber-GOTV from Buddy Roemer only rounded up a few hundred more supporters, leaving him several thousand shy of the 10,000-person minimum threshold.  No other declared candidate was anywhere close. Micah Sifry notes that there will be lingering questions about what [...]

Today’s comic from xkcd is titled “Ablogalypse.”  Randall Munroe shares his work under a Creative Commons License, so I’m reposting it below*: Three things about this chart: 1. Notice that mentions of “blog” haven’t declined much.  People are still blogging.  People are still talking about blogging.  But people are also finding new uses for tumblr sites, and [...]

Several months ago, I wrote a post about Occupy Wall Street and “playing well with others.”  My focus at the time was on progressive organizations like DailyKos, MoveOn, and Democracy for America.  The point was that allied organizations needed to find ways to offer support and solidarity without trying to take things over.  I felt [...]

There’s a fun anti-Citizens United video that made the rounds last week (see below).  It features big thinkers explaining problems with the campaign finance system, while goofing around with Internet memes –  keyboard cat, geyser videos, kids being cute, etc.     I like the video.  It’s not going to get a million views or [...]

I’ve just started reading David Weinberger’s newest book, Too Big To Know.*  For those who don’t know his work, Weinberger is one of the big thinkers at the Berkman Center.  I’m a longtime fan… his first couple books provided an influential push toward my current field of research. In the prologue, he raises the following [...]

Justin Elliott has an interesting post up at Salon today.  It concerns “The Freedom Community,” a secret e-mail list made up of conservative journalists and policy-types.  I can’t say much more about the list itself, because it’s secret.  Its very existence has been scrubbed from Google-Groups since he contacted one of its participants with questions. [...]

Apparently, the folks from AdBusters will be descending on Wall Street tomorrow afternoon to, I dunno, create a big revolution.  I hadn’t heard about it in over a month, which doesn’t bode well.  I’m not on the uber-radical listservs, but I’m on plenty of progressive lists.  There has been no publicity beyond the extreme left [...]

One of the runaway highlights of this year’s Personal Democracy Forum was Jim Gilliam’s talk “The Internet Is My Religion.” I’ve known Jim for a few years, but never known his full story.  The talk is moving and powerful and thought-provoking.  Click the link above and watch it. Kudos to Micah Sifry and Andrew Rasiej [...]