Salsa Scoop
Blog Like An Egyptian
A couple of really interesting stories have run in the last few days
on blogging's rapid blastulation in Egypt, a country currently in the midst of an
election campaign in which the strongman is fated to win 98% of the
vote.
Talk about online democracy. We have monkeyshine flamewars in the U.S. over whether pro-war bloggers shouldn't be signing up for service. Blogging dissension in a place like Egypt is signing up for service, the sort liable to deploy to an oubliette for the best part of one's youth.
The excellent Alternet, a DIA community member, logs a Christian Science Monitor story on the phenomenon here.
Read more...
11:00 AM Aug 30, 2005 -
0 comments
permalink
Dolor of Autumn
The days of sweltering repose that are August are drawing to a close;
silly season in Washington reconvenes a week from Tuesday, and not just
the annual rite of misbegotten optimism for the football team with the
racist moniker.
In addition to September's bookend marquees -- the John Roberts kabuki dance (opening September 6) and a massive anti-war rally (September 24-26) -- the nation's parliamentarians have lodged a predictably nefarious docket heavy on fiscal austerity that's a calculated purpose of the Bush tax cuts. (oh, there's another one of those in the pipe, too.)
Read more...
08:30 PM Aug 28, 2005 -
0 comments
permalink
Donors Giving Larger Gifts, Online And Off
Target Analysis Group has released its first-quarter Index of National Fundraising Performance (this link goes to a .pdf), which is based on a survey of a few dozen very large organizations. Though it's nothing that's going to cause you to rewrite your day planner, it's enough to make water cooler chat if your development department is large enough to have a water cooler chat.
Read more...
10:00 PM Aug 25, 2005 -
0 comments
permalink
DIA Tools Working for Community Wi-Fi
Andrew Rasiej, a progressive Internet entrepreneur who's using the DemocracyInAction platform through DemocracyInAction.com (a socially conscious business, as distinct from DemocracyInAction.org, a nonprofit), is running for Public Advocate in New York on a platform of increasing technology access -- including wireless throughout the city and in the subway tubes.
Read more...
02:30 PM Aug 23, 2005 -
0 comments
permalink
Stolen Playbook Series: RNC Website
The first entry in a franchise of peeks at effective e-advocacy strategy by the folks on the other team brings us to Brian Reich's entry on Personal Democracy Forum comparing the Republican Party's smooth-handling web redesign to the Dems', about which the best that Reich can offer is that it isn't as clunky as it used to be.
Read more...
03:00 PM Aug 22, 2005 -
0 comments
permalink
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190