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2006

156 posts

  1. FEC Ruling on Blogging and the Internet in politics

    Last week the FEC released a ruling on the regulation of blogging and the use of the internet in campaigns. The ruling has beeen seen as largely positive by the political blogging community. Basically it exempts political speech on the internet through blogs and podcasts from spending limits or regulations that apply to campaign spending while regulating paid advertising. The UPI has a good article about the ruling. I’d love to point you all to the FEC’s website for more information, but 5 minutes of searching there did not turn up any good summary of the new rules.

  2. NYT: “Politics Faces Sweeping Change Via the Web”

    The NYT ran a good article on how the internet (blogging, podcasting, etc) are shaking up politics. Unfortunately the piece is a bit shallow and fails to go into great detail about spending on oneline campaigning, or even the recent FEC ruling on blogging . It does owever call attention to the work of John Edwards , John Kerry and Mark Warner to campaign online through blogging and audio and video casting on their campaign websites.

  3. Anti War Postage Stamps for Your Taxes

    Just got an email from Andrew Hoppin over at GoodStorm (the cool custom merchandizing web fullfillment screen printing, ecommerce store thingy built on Drupal ). Andrew and some others are working on a project called BringThemHomeNow.com Well, you may recall that in advance of the holidays, the USPS created a service that allowed customers to create legal postage with custom images… Well, BringThemHomeNow has created legal US postage with a great message.

  4. Make your own anti suv commercial

    Last night, Eric Gundersen of Development Seed sent me a link to the Chevy Tahoe / Apprentice Ad Campaign . Looks like a bunch of environmentalists are doing a little culture jamming. Check out Marty Kearns’ Network Centric Advocacy blog for links to some pro environment andti suv commercials. Be sure to make your own and post a link. Here is my first one

  6. ActionCast: Kaliya Hamlin

    I sat down with Kaliya Hamlin for a few minutes at NTEN and she told me about her travels, and how folks have been talking about Identity at recent conferences…

  8. SpeedGeeking: Andrew Hoppin on Good Strom

    Andrew Hoppin (of Draft Clark and CivicSpaceLabs fame) has a new project called GoodStorm . It is a socially progressive Cafe Press. THe site allows users to upload images and create products (t-shirts) that are sold through a webstore on the goodstorm site. The actual products are printed to order, so there is no risk for the organization creating the product. GoodStorm has just introduced some social networking functionality that will let folks talk about the products, what they mean, connect with friends and cross promote each other’s stores.

  10. File Under: Should be Illegal

    This should be illegal . John Ashcroft is now a lobbyist! “Clients would call in an individual who has a reputation for the highest level of integrity,” he said in an interview in his office. “Those who have been in government should not be forbidden from helping people deal with government, which is what I see myself doing.” In the hourlong interview, Mr. Ashcroft used the word “integrity” scores of times.