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Will Facebook “archive” the One Million Strong for Barack group?

May 16, 2011

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jon

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With Facebook announcing an “upgrade or die” policy for old-style groups, it’s a stressful time for One Million Strong for Barack.Â As the Erratic Synapse writes in Facebook Stands Poised to Take Our Group of Over 980,000 Obama Supporters… Back to 0 on Daily Kos, Here’s the problem: our group may not be eligible for…
Neocons’ worst nightmare: net movements intersecting in Ideas for Change in America

Jan 13, 2009

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jon

in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

DREAM Activists and undocumented youth, the Stonewall 2.0 LGBTQ movement, Get FISA Right and civil libertarians, peace activists — together again for the first time, along with a demand for accountability for the last 8 years. Â Scary stuff.Â 🙂 Read on for more … and please digg it! It’s been surprising to me how…
Stonewall 2.0: Repeal DOMA!

Jan 10, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

The vibe under the sunshine at the corner of Castro and Market was positive and determined — a few hundred people maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), just the right size for the location.Â The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama, with people fanning out afterwards to BART…
Once again Open for Questions: the pilot continues

Dec 29, 2008

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jon

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Round two of change.gov’s Open for Questions is up.Â Not a lot of details … last time, it was open for about three days, and there were brief answers to the top five questions, and a more detailed post and video on at least one topic (bailout transparency). Dan McSwain, on the change.gov blog, describes…
Open for Questions at change.gov: What about privacy?

Dec 14, 2008

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jon

in political, privacy, social sciences

The Obama transition team’s Open for Questions pilot last week went extremely well for a first attempt.Â Combined with all the other promising things Micah Sifry discusses in Kudos to the Change.gov New Media Team, it seems to me that the Obama administration is on track for some effective ways of leveraging cognitive diversity and…
Three important posts on techPresident

Dec 8, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

techPresident continues its recent roll, with three very worthwhile posts. Micah Sifry’s The Other Transition: Whither Obama’s Movement? contrasts the transparency of change.gov and the transition in DC with the top-down and relatively closed nature (so far) of the discussions about the future for the organizers network and my.barackobama.com.Â Excellent comments from folks like Wade…
Hope 1, Fear 0: YES WE DID!

Nov 4, 2008

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jon

in Personal, political, social sciences

From Eluminatus: A change is coming Why be shrunk by fear when you can choose hope? Why be manipulated by hate when you can choose desire? Why settle for singularity when you can have multiplicity? Control is an illusion and influence is possible. Look for meta-level solutions. Avoid false dualities. Change is performative. Worship the…
A One Million Strong Facebook moneybomb!

Oct 8, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

I posted an earlier draft of this on October 4. The Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) Facebook group is in the midst of its October moneybomb to scare McCain fundraising drive, with a goal of raising $15K by October 15th to push the group’s total to $40K.Â It’s an ambitious goal; while the…
Obama’s YouTube video page hacked!?!?!!?

Oct 7, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional

Just saw this in a thread in the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group: the Barack Obama Keating Economics page on YouTube appears to have been hacked. It’s fixed now … but here’s a screenshot: The Part of: link at the bottom apparently went to the McCain ad “The One.” (No, I didn’t click…
A One Million Strong Facebook moneybomb (DRAFT)

Oct 4, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

revised and updated version to be published during the week of 10/6 It seems to me that it’s a pretty interesting story that One Million Strong now has fundraising potential on roughly the same level as well-known progressive blogs OpenLeft and myDD — especially in an election where there’s been so much focus on Obama…
Constitution Day: Can we please talk about it?

Sep 17, 2008

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jon

in political

Constitution Day has arrived without major statements from Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain on the need to restore this country’s commitment to the rule of law. — John Nichols, Constitution in Crisis, Candidates in Denial, The Nation At the risk of showing my age, I grew up with the impression that the Constitution…
Get FISA Right: on the air in St. Paul!

Sep 3, 2008

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jon

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

During the past 8 years, the Bush administration listened to Americans’ phone calls and read their emails without a warrant. If elected President, John McCain would do the same.* – Get FISA Right ad, scheduled to air on Fox News in St. Paul today Update: check out Nick Juliano’s Anti-FISA group targets GOP delegates in…
Get FISA Right gets partisan!

Aug 26, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

The new ad stars the Constitution as the main player, with the visual featuring a pan over founding documents. One version of the ad takes aim at the Republican Senators, who voted unanimously to extend the powers of government to listen to Americansâ€™ phone calls and read their emails without a warrant; another highlights John…
One Million Strong: this week’s “other” convention

Aug 24, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Even without corporate sponsorships or prime-time coverage, the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group’s online convention this week is a fascinating complement to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver. Nobody’s quite sure how many of One Million Strong‘s 625,000 members are currently active, probably a few thousand. Unlike a lot of Facebook groups,…
Evan Bayh: “Facebook me.” Progressives: “Sure!”

Aug 21, 2008

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jon

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…
Get FISA Right: Paging Clay Shirky

Jul 13, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing

Wow, what a weekend. Friday, the Get FISA Right campaign was on CNN a couple of times (including a brief clip by me on American Morning that also got picked up internationally and a great discussion of Obama & Get FISA Right Activism by Ari Melber on CNN headline news where he challenged the left/right…
It’s the Fourth of July, and we’re fighting for our civil liberties

Jul 4, 2008

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jon

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…
NYTimes criticizes, reinforces NYTimes smear on Obama, Muslims

Jun 2, 2008

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jon

in political

An op-ed piece by Edward Luttwak the New York Times last week relied on a very questionable description of Obama as a “Muslim apostate” to argue that he’d have a hard time reaching out to Muslim leaders and would be at risk of assassination if he visited any countries with a lot of Muslims. It…