The amazing folks over at e.politics have recently released a new edition of “Online Politics 101: The Tools and Tactics of Online Political Advocacy”, a nicely packaged collections of articles from the site explaining the basics of using social media tools for online political activism and campaigning. This 52pp. FREE PDF book covers everything from [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Web 2.0’
April 10, 2008
The Realities of Being a Writer in the Age of New Media
As always, Tony Pierce is the man. Here’s what he had to say to a group of young aspiring Journalists the other day (straight from the legendary BusBlog):
i said you might come into the office and they look at you and say, can you make it to LAX to interview the CEO of Virgin and [...]
March 25, 2008
Awesome Lo-Fi YouTube Explanation of Twitter
This rocks. I especially love the use of lo-fi media (cut-outs, Flash Gordon-style animations) to explain a Web 2.0 tool like Twitter using another Web 2.0 tool like YouTube. The effect is jarring – in a good way – and really got (and kept!) my attention.
December 4, 2007
Facebook is just…creepy.
Okay, I’m a Facebook user. Not a very active one, but I have an account, I’ve managed to keep my Friend List down to a few people whom I actually know and care about, I’ve occasionally used it for communication. I’ve just never found it to be particularly useful in a “geeIgottahavethishowdidIeverlivewithoutit” kind of way.
I [...]
December 2, 2007
Social Networks Best Practices (Research Note)
Wanted to put this up as part of my research into social networking and politics 2.0. This is a powerpoint of a research report by FaberNovel, a French research firm, and it’s quite good. Slide 14 on Virtual Identity and various social networking platforms is very intriguing. I wanted to save this for my own [...]
August 13, 2007
Recent Pew Study States the Obvious, Web 2.0 used by 20-somethings
This story over at cnet, “Wired but not Web 2.0? That’s normal, study says,” reads sort of like a “Dog Bites Man” story – in other words, didn’t we already know this? Article references a recent (and actually very interesting) study put out by the Pew Internet & American Life project which breaks down the [...]
