Campaign Website Award

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

[Larsz / Flickr] Genevieve Sponsler caught this post in her daily trolling of Voices without Votes (a very cool site that tracks foreign opinion about Campaign 08). In it, a South African expat living in Ireland comments on the style and effectiveness of the three remaining candidates' websites. Highest points go ...

Obama and Open Source Politics

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

[mattkeefe / Flickr] Here's another perspective on technology and Campaign 08. Scott Chacon is a Bay Area computer programmer with an abiding interest in "open source politics" -- which he defines as "the idea that openness and transparency through technology can improve our political system." He put that idea to the ...

Richardson Was No Dean Online

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Connecting the old-fashioned way [Jay Tamboli / Flickr] Emmett O'Connell lives and blogs -- largely about politics -- in Olympia, WA. He was enthusiastically involved online in the Dean campaign in 2004; this time around, he helped set up a community site for Bill Richardson long before Richardson even declared his ...