Millennial Mourning: Tweeting, Facebooking & Appreciating Ted Kennedy
As America mourns the loss of legendary senator Ted Kennedy, I can’t help but marvel over the way that technology has affected the way we mourn his passing, and the generational gap this difference illustrates. For example, here is how the news played out in my personal Millennial sphere of influence: 7:30am >> Usual morning [...]
Is Obama’s Health Care Maelstorm the Birth of Millennial Politics?
For a nation enmeshed in a generational and technological realignment, it’s not shocking that doubts have begun to surface about the viability of our unprecedented president’s vision for a new American era. As casual citizens and politicos terrified for years by threats of violence, economic collapse and moral certitude cling to the familiar mechanisms of [...]
The Future of Netroots: GOP Disruptions, Daily Kos & the Role of OfA
With Netroots Nation coming up next week, we have joining us DailyKos General Manager Will Rockafellow for today’s Wilshire & Washington. We talk the future of the netroots and, now that President Obama has been in office for six months, how tactics will change online. The Republicans are certainly getting into the swing of things [...]
How Bing & Twitter Can Save Journalism
This commentary was originally posted at CauseCast.org. If you Google the “demise of journalism,” some 718,000 results will appear detailing the transition of consumers to the Internet, the decline of advertising revenue, the hacking of newsroom editorial staffs, the artificial knowledge of crowd-sourced information, and the collective threat to intellectualism and civic responsibility. Usually fingers [...]
CauseCast | Dems, GOP in Steep Post-Sotomayor Battle for Latino Voters
In response to some interesting news items from yesterday, I wrote over at CauseCast about the partisan battle for Latino voters. Who could resist after The Daily Beast wrote the headline: “Newt Gringo?” “Te gusta los political posturings de Newt Gingrich? The former Speaker of the House and the GOP’s maybe-if-Sarah-Mitt-and-Mike-completely-drop-the-ball 2012 presidential contender is [...]
My “Four Types of Bloggers” Theory on MediaBistro’s FishbowlNY!
After last week’s panel I spoke with Amanda Ernst for a bit about my “Four Types of Bloggers” Theory. (For the curious, the four types are: Spot News Aggregators, Personal Historians, Idea Factories and Community Builders.) We admit that we staged the lighting more like a spooky campfire than a serious interview, but just imagine [...]
CauseCast: BO on ‘Today,’ Chris Brown’s Apology
Today on CauseCast I reviewed the president’s health care schpeel with Meredith Viera and asked whether Chris Brown’s apology for beating the sh*t out of Rhianna was a necessary farce. Check out the posts and leave comments!
Summer’s State of the Union: SCOTUS, Politico & Bruno Bring the Heat
A serious question for all those watching the Sonia Sotomayor hearings: Nobody, especially Sotomayor, is really going to say anything new or dramatic, so can we skip it? No? D’oh! A wise Latina might let us, but we all know how the Republicans feel about them. On this week’s Wilshire & Washington, we confront bipartisan [...]
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