As the Libby Trial enters the next phase, I’ve found it interesting to ask the question, what is the trial all about. My most literal friends who are following the trial closely respond with comments about perjury and obstruction of justice in Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame. […]

Matthew Bernius responds to my post, Hope is Presidential. He writes,

Aldon mentions Ask a Ninja, Hope is Emo, and Lonelygirl15 as YouTube exemplars. I’m not quite sure what the candidates can learn from these content creators, as they all are essentially “old media” examples in the new media space. All of these are […]

As we wade further into the 2008 presidential primary season, we are seeing more and more candidate videos and more and more commentary on such videos. Yet I wonder if somehow the whole point is being missed.
Matthew Bernius talks about a tale of two candidate’s video distribution strategies, comparing Obama’s use of BrightCove […]

Back in 2004, I was one of the bloggers credentialed to cover the Democratic National Convention in Boston, and was surprised to find how much we bloggers were part of the story. Some of that is because of the scripted nature of conventions with their outcomes already predefined. There wasn’t much for uncertainty, […]