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Digital Journalism Case Study: Live Blogging a Political Convention |
 The California Democratic Party held its annual convention in San Diego April 27-29, and I was there blogging, along with hundreds of other traditional and web-based reporters. Here are some observations.
<- First, a thought about this picture: No matter how much technology finds its way into campaigns and campaign coverage, politics is ultimately about touch. This shot is from a rally of Barack Obama supporters just before Obama went into the main hall to address the 2,000-plus attendees. Notice the hand wrapped around Obama's wrist, and the other one hovering over his head. Also: the fists in the foreground, expressing solidarity, and the echo of the fist in the background, holding up a cell phone camera. And meanwhile a big bodyguard tries to make sure all these attempts to connect with the candidate don't get out of hand. More on my O'Reilly Digital Media blog... |
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PR in the Web Age: Actions Really Do Speak Louder Than Words |
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By bringing netroots pressure to bear on the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts/Texas Pacific Group buyout of Texas energy firm TXU, "Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council used the Internet and the market to save the planet from tons of CO2,“ writes Tom Friedman in the New York Times (subscription required). TXU had planned to build 13 C02-belching coal-fired power plants, but then the environmental groups started Stoptxu.com and simultaneously took TXU to court. |
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Digital Politics: From CivicSpace to Groundswell |
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CivicSpace, the free open source community organizing web platform, is migrating to Groundswell, which is essentially the same thing, but with a subscription fee and a promise to shield users from technical challenges. It’s not surprising: CivicSpace was impressive, but it seemed to occupy a limbo between open source and consumer software. CivicSpace invited non-technical users by making it easier to build an online political operation. But it was never easy enough, and maybe never could have been, given that just installing it required some minimal familiarity with the LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) environment. Handling all the ensuing support requests, for free, must have been quite a burden. More on my O'Reilly blog...
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