So, in brief, a Republican congressman from Texas by the name of John Culberson is up in arms about a letter on how members of the House of Representatives use the Internet, and I took to the Huffington Post to push back a bit on the conventional wisdom that Democrats in Congress are intent upon cracking down on Twitter, Qik, YouTube, so on and so forth. I’m posting it in full below, and then I’m off to do something, anything, that has nothing to do whatsoever with Twitter:
The Politics of the Twitter Dome Scandal
Those of us obsessed with both politics and technology have a juicy new piece of red meat to sink our teeth into this week. Republican Congressman John Culberson of Texas, is leading the charge against a three-week old letter (in pdf) written by Democratic Congressman Mike Capuano of Massachusetts, in which Capuano proposed how members of the House of Representatives be guided in their use of online video. Also in the fight: House Minority L...
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Key Congressman and Consumer Group Oppose Google-Yahoo Partnership - Wired News
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New Politics From: nancyscola.com Post Date: 2008-03-04 18:32:46
In his column today, David Brooks cleverly sketched out the zeitgeists of the Clinton and Obama campaigns . In short, she’s Old Politics, rooted in the executive mindset that values expertise and thinks leadership means issuing orders. His New Politics, on the other hand, draws power from collaboration and the flattening of status.
I know that by offering anything resembling a defense of the fuddy-duddy Clintonian approach, I run the risk of marking myself as thoroughly uncool and qu... more
I come to you with a request. For a feature piece I’m working on, I’d like to talk to people living anywhere in the U.S. who, for either reasons of price or simple availability, don’t have high-speed Internet access. They could either be using dial-up not going online at all (or at least not at home). If you have friends or relatives that fit the bill and would be willing to talk to me, please send them my way. My email address and IM contact info are listed ... more
Hey, New Yorkers: Tonight’s " How the Netroots are Changing Progressive Politics " hosted by The Nation at CUNY Grad Center should be worth checking out. (I plan on posting some notes on it, so if you can’t make it, stay tuned.)... more
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