Tag: social networks
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Ideas for Change in America: heading into the homestretch
Executive summary things are still in flux in the change.org/MySpace Ideas for Change in America as we head into the last week of the first round civil liberties (six ideas), drug reform (five ideas), and education (five ideas) dominate the top 30 my idea, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil…
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“President Obama, please get FISA right” approved by Comcast
Get FISA Right’s cable TV ad for the inauguration has been approved by Comcast — almost two weeks sooner than we had estimated! So now it’s time for grassroots fundraising to put it on the air – in Washington DC, and potentially all around the country. The ad addresses President Obama directly, congratulating him on…
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Photos wanted for the Get FISA Right “inauguration ad”
Were you one of the 23,000 Obama supporters who got together on my.barackobama.com last July to protest his stance on FISA? If so, we’d like to include your photo in a cable TV ad we’re working on with SaysMe.tv that we’ll be broadcasting in Washington DC for the inauguration. Here’s the script: Even though we…
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Get FISA Right: quick update
Executive Summary Ideas for Change competition: currently #6; please vote for and help promote our idea. Cable TV ads: notes from last conference call are up; next call Saturday; script frozen by Monday. Update, 9:30 pm: draft scripts including “Better watch those nuns — and their friends too” posted. Feedback please! 2009 strategy planning: please…
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Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 strategy
After discussions with people in Get FISA Right as well as others (including EFF, ACLU, privacy advocates, and journalists), I’ve put together a proposal for a 2009 Strategy. There’s also a Strategy Backgrounder, with a brief history, and a discussion of our strengths and challenges — as well as challenges for the anti-FISA forces in…
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Three important posts on techPresident
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. Excellent comments from folks like Wade…
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Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 communication channels
In response to the consistent feedback that we need to simplify our communications mechanisms, there’s a proposal up on the wiki. A summary: to stay informed: check the website/blog at getfisaright.net OR get action alerts and daily(ish) newsletters on any one of the channels listed in the “Broadcasts” section below (email, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)…
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FISA: How will the Obama administration respond on immunity?
Justice Department attorney Carl Nichols didn’t get through his first full sentence defending the constitutionality of retroactive immunity for spying telecom carriers before U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker interrupted to ask about President-elect Barack Obama. “We are going to have new attorney general,” Walker interjected in Tuesday morning’s hearing in a San Francisco courthouse. “Why…
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change.org/MySpace “Ideas for Change in America” top 20
Updated info available at the top ideas list on the change.org site Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th Congress can turn the broad call for “change” across the country into specific policies…. The top…
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Get FISA Right and Change.org’s Ideas site: Rupert Murdoch as civil rights sugar daddy?
Nancy Scola’s Ideas for Change, and a Roadmap in techPresident’s “Daily Digest†discusses Change.org’s Ideas for Change in America: The social-action hub has just announced that the project now has the backing of MySpace and a broad coalition of supporting partners, including techPresident, the Sunlight Foundation, Netroots Nation, VotoLatino, GOOD Magazine, Change Congress, Campus Progress,…
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#MotrinMoms: From Twitter to the NY Times in 24 hours.
Katja Presnal’s Motrin Ad Makes Moms Mad Motrin’s “viral” video making fun of babywearing mothers — timed for the start of International Babywearing Week — has, much to their PR firms amazement, led to a backlash. As Allyson Kaplan’s Motrin’s Pain: Viral Video Disaster on Fast Company’s Radical Tech describes: The viral video worked in…
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Help, please, with test data for the Twitter Vote Report (updated with logo)
Executive summary Please take a minute to help by providing test data for an election monitoring project! Details Momentum on the Twitter Vote Report continues to build — Nancy Scola and Allison Fine’s excellent update from Monday already looks out of date, and as the steadily-growing partners list implies, we’re making excellent progress towards the…
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Election protection: Techville and Reality City
Welcome to those who have gotten here via my appearance on Meet the Bloggers! The Voter Suppression Wiki is a non-partisan hub of information and action around efforts to suppress votes in the 2008 U.S. elections. For more information, please see our strategy and talking points, Baratunde Thurston’s launch post on Jack and Jill Politics,…
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Ask Facebook to de-friend Ted Ullyot!
cross-posted at the Oxdown Gazette The L.A. Times’ Tech blog* is reporting that Ted Ullyot — a former chief of staff to former AG Alberto Gonzales, a former AOL in-house lawyer and a former Kirkland & Ellis partner — is moving to San Fran to take the top legal job at Facebook. — Facebook Sends…
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No blank check for Wall Street: It’s not over
originally posted on Pam’s House Blend Debbie Stone: Do you think it’s over? Mike Tobacco: Yeah, sure.– the final lines from Killer Klowns from Outer Space, right before it becomes clear that no, it’s not over Ah well. After Monday’s brief shining moment of resistance from the House, the politics of business as usual asserted…
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Poetry Friday: A web 2.0 poem
In addition to being a co-author on Tales from the Net, my brother Gregory K’s also a poet — best known for Fibs, fibonacci poetry, which wound up getting him a book deal after being featured on Slashdot. In his latest, for this week’s poetry Friday, worlds collide: I’M PRETTY WELL CONNECTED (a Web 2.0…
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Evan Bayh: “Facebook me.” Progressives: “Sure!”
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…
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“What’s an activism campaign these days without a Facebook presence?”
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…
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E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: “Elections 2.0”
I’m at a tutorial on Tuesday discussing “elections 2.0” at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, and one of the things I want to cover is Web 2.0 technologies’ positive role in countering deceptive campaign practices. I’m planning on using some examples from the Obama activism work I’ve been doing on Facebook, as well as…
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Clay Shirky to deliver closing plenary at CFP08!
From the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy blog: We are pleased to announce that Clay Shirky will deliver the closing plenary keynote at CFP Technology Policy ’08. Since the 1990s, Shirky has written, taught, and consulted on the social, cultural, and economic effects of Internet technologies and social media. His most recent book, Here Comes Everybody:…