How to work The Internets (not!) #1

No 1 of my new series How to work The Internets (not!).
Under the unflattering title “Webtards: Mc Cain And Obama Reps Hold Worst Presidential Debate Ever On Twitter“, Gawker describes John McCain’s campaign video game:
McCain’s game is a sad imitation of Space Invaders, a pixelated smash hit c. 1983, but with pigs in place [...]

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 [...]