Part Four of a six-part series Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block-walkers and pro...

The Daily Show takes on Twitter, plus Tired of Twitter? You ain’t alone and Congress on Twitter: Getting Between the 435 and the 140. Also note a couple of examples of when Congressmembers should think before they Tweet. If you haven’t run screaming yet, here are 10 tools for breaking in...

Part Three of a six-part series With their team in place and technology under development, the Obama campaign wasted no time in building their most important resource: the list of volunteers who would work to elect the Illinois senator president. And just as the campaign would use new media tools to...

Part Two of a six-part series Structure isn’t sexy — but to talk about the critical online tools of 2008 without discussing the framework that governed their use would be missing the most important part of the story. ANYONE could employ (most of) the technology the Obamans used, but very...

Part One of a six-part series Without the internet, Barack Obama would still be the junior senator from Illinois. Instead, his two-year campaign for the White House relied on electronic communications to an unprecedented extent for its core functions: organizing volunteers and staff, finding new sup...

Bipartisanship as a political weapon, and the Republican counter-”strategy.” The eternal role of the personal in politics. At Obama’s first prime-time press conference, a blogger gets a nod, while Biden’s Office Holds Stimulus Call with Progressive Bloggers. Winning panels fo...

Cross-posted on Fem2.0 Quick: off the top of your head, name the most prominent voices in the progressive political blogosphere. Kos? A guy. Atrios? A guy. Josh Marshall? Glenn Greenwald? Jerome Armstrong? Ditto. The only top-level female bloggers in the general progressive political space who come ...

Ginormous post-Inauguration catch-up edition — fruits of a month of random browsing, obsessive clicking and a ton of Google Alerts. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html"Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages. Lots of talk ab...

The difference between Inauguration 2009 and its equivalent eight years ago was so vast that it’s hard to know where to start. The entire public mood of the city inverted — we endured mobs of party-goers instead of protesters, and did so with joy and consideration (locals would almost li...

Here at e.politics, we may cling to our victrolas, our morse code and our Windows XP, but some people in the online world look a little farther ahead. For instance, along with co-founder Marc Andreessen, Gina Bianchini at Ning has been working since the company’s 2005 launch to put the ability...