Salsa Scoop

New Bottles

We thought DemocracyInAction could use a fresh wrapper. With fond farewells to the that honest, bygone site that bent with the wear of carrying us through the Sturm und Drang of adolescence. Walk away proud ... ... but do walk away. And if I loved you Wednesday, Well, what is that to you?  

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05:55 PM Nov 09, 2006 - 0 comments permalink


The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Trounced

As Billmon reflects on the GOP's stubborn caucasian plurality, RedState inadvertently underscores with a longing look back at the Gingrich Revolution, featuring a YouTube whose only person of color is the Jefferson Memorial statue.

Did y'all get the demographic memo?

 

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05:24 PM Nov 09, 2006 - 0 comments permalink


And Congratulations To ...

... several political users of the same toolset that powers DemocracyInAction who, like Virginia Governor Tim Kaine in 2005, worked through advocacy shop WiredForChange, and now sport titles that end in "-elect". Joe Sestak for Congress (PA) Chris Carney for Congress (PA) Jim Doyle/Barbara Lawton (WI Governor and Lieutenant Governor) Kathleen Sibelius (KA Governor) Paul Morrison (KA Attorney General) John Chiang (CA Controller) (pause to take a breath) ... AND ... four Senatorial candidates working through the DSCC, which makes the same tools freely available to any Democrat running for Senate:  

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06:30 PM Nov 08, 2006 - 0 comments permalink


The Morning After: What Did We Learn?

Surely a few exultant Dems are just rolling out of bed by now, grappling for aspirin and for the name of the unfamiliar supine body curled up next to them. Plenty of lessons learned in that, certainly.

Colin Delany -- whose Online Politics 101 guide (.pdf) we recently extolled -- has a very nice overview post of lessons learned about online politicking in the '06 cycle that's as applicable to cause-oriented advocates as to political campaigns.

 

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02:00 PM Nov 08, 2006 - 0 comments permalink


Content Wants To Be Free: Football Edition

Via Football Outsiders, where discussion has descended into a stultifying miasma of intellectual property minutiae, comes word that the National Football League is the latest entity to strip its highlights from YouTube.

Let's leave aside for the moment the timing: just like the rest of the copyright action on YouTube, it's occurred in the aftermath of the startup's move under the penumbra of Google's capacious treasuries. There's every likelihood that it's a dance of corporate elephants to conclude with a curtsy and a few million bucks changing hands.

 

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03:51 PM Nov 07, 2006 - 0 comments permalink


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