After I wrote my blog piece, The Innovation Invitation, Jock Gill called me up and we had an interesting talk about it. He pointed out that the invitation to innovate should not be restricted new technology changing the way we communicate on campaigns. We need innovative ideas that transcend campaigning and go beyond relying solely [...]

I have always been fascinated by innovation. It is what America was built on, has helped keep America strong, and I believe is where our strength in the future lies. I’ve always been an early adopter of technology and seek to add my own innovations. For me, and I believe for many others, that was [...]

On a mailing list about media education, I got into a discussion about my post, Videoblogging as an antidote to too much TV. I spoke about the interaction that our time in front of computers engenders. Some people spoke about the interaction that television engenders, whether it be kids yelling out answers to Blue’s Clues, [...]

This Friday, I will attend Personal Democracy Forum. This is its fourth year, and I’ve made it every year so far. In 2004, I had been doing a lot of volunteer work with Gov. Dean’s Presidential campaign. When Gov. Dean ended his campaign, my wife decided to run for State Representative and I was her [...]

Several recent articles have caught my attention and have led me to the assertion that what we need to do to address problems with broadcast television isn’t more regulation, it’s more videoblogging. Yesterday, the Christian Science Monitor had an editorial entitled, Time to tame TV violence. The subtitle went on to say, “The media industry [...]

It seems as if much of the discussion online about the Obama MySpace page has gotten mired down in people attacking either Joe Anthony or the Obama campaign, and it is missing something much bigger. The event was but one small example of a clash of cultures, a clash between volunteer driven bottom up activities [...]

One of the papers that I found particularly interesting at the Media in Transition conference, was The You in YouTube: The Emergence of Collective Identity Formation Through Online Video Sharing. It explorer the role of the community in forming the identity of Ysabella Brave. Ysabella has 22,745 subscribers, over four times the number that Obama [...]