The FISA Protest and myBO: Can We Talk? Can They Listen?

The fact is, we're all entering completely new territory here. There have always been efforts to influence political candidates to take or change positions during a campaign (or afterward), but we've never before had a national campaign create an open platform for mobilizing supporters AND THEN seen a salient chunk of those supporters openly use that platform to challenge the candidate on a policy position. Indeed, while the net is inherently a two-way, ... Full Story »

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by Chris Finnie - Jul. 3, 2008

I've always liked Sifry's work since he was a regular at The Nation. At TechPresident, his posts have tended to be shorter--though he did manage to be the first journalist to discover the identity of the Clinton 1984 mashup. Here he's done something I really like in a journalist, reported on the facts and then expanded the picture. Here's what happened. Now what does it mean? How might it change things? It gives the story an extra dimension that I really enjoy.

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