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Evan Bayh: “Facebook me.” Progressives: “Sure!”

Aug 21, 2008

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Written jointly with Ronit Aviva Dancis “Evan Bayh for Democratic VP Nominee” on Intrade Prediction Market The last time we heard from Senator Evan Bayh was early July when he voted with the Republicans against all three amendments to strip telecom immunity from the FISA legislation. A month later, here was Max Bernstein’s Can Progressives…

Towards a rebirth of freedom: activism on social networks, part 1 (DRAFT)

Jul 30, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

DRAFT! Revised version posted at Pam’s House Blend and (under a different title, and minus the introduction ) Open Left.

It’s the Fourth of July, and we’re fighting for our civil liberties

Jul 4, 2008

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in Personal, political, Tales from the Net

Originally sent to the Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right mailing list. I certainly don’t mean to trivialize the situation. There’s a huge amount at stake and the anger, frustration, and disappointment so many of us (including me) feel comes through in every post. Realistically, the odds are still against…

The first thing to do: set up a wiki

Jul 1, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

I remember hearing Zack Rosen of CivicSpace starting his talk about the team that put together the Katrina people finder by saying “one of the first things we did was set up a wiki” and it really struck a chord. As an effort like Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right…

“What’s an activism campaign these days without a Facebook presence?”

Jun 29, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, Uncategorized

Mail to the Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right mailing list. See the wiki for more context. 2200 members and growing… Update, July 1: 8600+ members on myBO — moving into #2 in the top 10 groups. Coverage in The Nation, Wired, Slashdot, The New Right, and zillions of other…

Phyllis Schafly to get Honorary Doctorate from Wash U?

May 6, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

The intro of the No honorary doctorate for anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly Facebook group: Wash. U. will honor anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly at commencement. WHAT? This is the woman who lives the hypocrisy of having a career that takes her around the country lecturing “family values” groups on how women should stay home. This is the woman…

Facebook flakiness: reliability problems, or an attack?

Mar 8, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social sciences

Facebook once again is in the middle of major flakiness right now: links to nowhere, spontaneous logouts. The best thing to do when something like this happens is to treat it as a sign that it’s a good time to take a break from Facebook for a little while. So I decided to write this…

Coverage for ‘How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech’

Feb 24, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net

The two-part series I posted on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki is starting to get some coverage. Shai Sachs has an excellent piece on MyDD: There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Facebook “censorship” of free speech. The Blackadder One case I wrote about a couple weeks ago was just an…

“Yes We Can” do grassroots campaigning for Obama on Facebook

Feb 4, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net

The Yes We Can/Sí Se Puede video’s already got at least a million hits on YouTube — 566,000 for the one I linked to here, a couple more instances with 285,000 and 140,000, and then a long tail curve … How many people will watch it if we get it all over Facebook? I dunno,…

Carnival against sexual violence 36 — and What Men Can Do

Dec 10, 2007

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jon

in political

Today’s the last of the 16 days of activism against gender violence and so I wanted to highlight December’s Carnival against sexual violence, hosted by abyss2hope. Categories include legal, media watch, personal stories, raising awareness, research, and my fave solutions, which has a link off to shakesville’s excellent What Men Can Do. A few especially…

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