During my time at techPresident I spent a lot of time criticizing and praising the efforts of folks like MySpace and YouTube to team up with old school media outlets like CNN and MTV to produce new kinds of participatory debates. Not all of the results were good (the first YouTube/CNN Democratic debate was a [...]
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Settled: Obama Is Good for the Jews
That’s it, Obama’s got the Jewish vote:
But seriously folks, I hear that Obama received a grand reception at AIPAC, where, according to a source, he has “100%” of their support. In other words, he didn’t stray from script of standard American support for Israel as it’s been practiced for the last 30 years, [...]
Check it out: me on Brian Lehrer
It’s me on the Brian Lehrer TV show, along with Wired’s fantastic Sarah Lai Stirland. Charts, charts, and more charts.
Bhutto in the Blogosphere
As always, I fired up my feedreader first thing this morning to go through headlines for today’s Daily Digest. I found out about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination from an unlikely source, William Beutler’s Blog P.I. blog, where Beutler, a conservative blogger, usually writes about the 2008 election and conservative politics.
Leaving aside for a moment the fact [...]
“You cannot introduce democracy to a country by using tanks.”
This is probably the best argument for allowing Ahmadenijad to speak at Columbia today:
A rally where each speaker denounces Ahmadinejad’s reactionary policies and just a few call explicitly for military action will still be perceived, on campus and around the U.S., as pro-war. The right-wing media, from Fox News to the New York tabloids, [...]
techPresident video experiment #3
I’m working on a new approach for our techPresidentTV videos. Here’s my first stab:
I’m hoping to have more time to add an intro and outro and more content to future videos.
Shamelessly plugging myself: Levy in the news
I was recently interviewed by ABCnews.com about Second Life and politics, which was fun, and Erica Sagrans, who I met at the RootsCamp conference in DC a few months back, wrote a great piece about new technologies politics and I’m, ahem, quoted in that too. Check them both out!
The State of Our Union
Google News, 5:40 pm, November 7th, 2006 (also known as Election Day). This is what is important to our country.
Thanks David Weinberger, and David, the guy at the coffee shop, for pointing it out.
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