somewhat political

How to work The Internets (or not!)

I’m not much into bashing. But. Picking up on P.’s comments on my brief round-up post on online politics, I guess it’s time for a new series, or rather: two.
First, How to work The Internets, where I’ll collect examples of political campaigns making particularly good use of the web.
Second, and in best Borat […]

ePolitics: What’s happening right now?

I’d like to give an overview over the whole ePolitics space, from online campaigning to e-participation. Of course, that’s hardly possible, so I’m not even going to try. (If you have such an overview, please share in the comments!) Instead, I’ll just point out some things, projects & news that have struck me as interesting […]

Ameritocracy: Beta invites for you

A few days ago I wrote a brief post about Ameritocracy, a collaborative fact-checking platform with a focus on U.S. politics.
The Ameritrocracy team got back to me and was so nice to provide my readers with a bunch of invites to the close beta so you can check it out yourself.
With the invite […]

Ameritocracy: Collaborative Fact-Checking

If there’s one thing the internet is pretty good at, then it must be crunching lots of info by having a lot of folks look at said info. Call it crowdsourcing or collaboration, if you need a great many eyes to look at stuff, and a lot of opinions, the web is the place to […]

There’s money in Web 2.0…

…says Forrester’s Josh Bernoff, author of Groundswell. It’s just that quite often, the most successful Web 2.0 companies aren’t widely recognized because they cater to a relatively unsexy target audience: Corporate. Here goes Bernoff in Harvard Business Publishing:
…there are a class of startup companies making good money right now from Web 2.0. They’re not flashy […]