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Exploiting Citizens United ruling with online ads
Nearly every progressive I know is freaking out about the Supreme Court ruling removing restrictions on corporations spending money on behalf of political candidates.
There are all kinds of reasons the ruling is bad, but the rules of politics are already ridiculous. Now it’s worse, but you’ve still got to play by exploit [...]
Planet Abuse
One of the big problems in building a movement is trying to get people to do “less” of something. If it’s morally wrong, you shouldn’t just do less of it, you shouldn’t do it at all! Without the moral clarity of “murder is wrong,” people just keep doing what they’re doing.
This is a [...]
Tweet Progress gets Twitter lists
Tweet Progress is a directory of progressives on Twitter. A couple weeks ago, Twitter rolled out a new “lists” feature that lets people curate their own list of Twitter accounts, then others can follow those lists to see just the tweets from those people. This is great, and obviously I should make lists for [...]
Introducing act.ly Retweets
With act.ly petitions, I’m finding that a lot of activists just want people to retweet something, and it’s not necessarily a petition. People were actually targeting petitions at themselves just so they could use the other act.ly functionality, even though all they really wanted was for people to tweet some specific text in [...]
Should you hide bias or be honest?
The Washington Post is now forbidding staffers from “writing, tweeting or posting anything – including photographs or video – that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility.”
This is a trap that nearly everyone who is supposed to be “unbiased” [...]
My interview at Personal Democracy Forum
Here’s my interview with Anna Curran. “Hear what Jim says is the biggest story of our generation. He talks about the promise of the Internet, and why his Dad’s advice just can’t be beat.”
NYC Trip: PdF Conference and ParticipationCamp
I’ll be in NYC from June 26th-June 30th. I’d love to meet up with anyone who will be in town and is interested in what I’m working on with NationBuilder and White House 2. Just drop me an email.
I’ll be presenting at the PdF conference in NYC on June 30th. “Imagining White [...]
Stealing from the Constitution
I’m introducing an important new concept to NationBuilder: branches.
The purpose of the three branches of U.S. government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) is to provide checks and balances to ensure that none of them have too much power. We’re ripping this off and sticking it in NationBuilder, so you can organize different [...]
