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PdF Europe: Live Audio Stream at Civicolive.com/pdfeu

If you want to follow along with the Personal Democracy Forum Europe conference live by audio, we're pleased to be partnering with Civico, an internet radio station based in Birmingham, England, which will be streaming all the sessions over the next ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Personal Democracy Forum,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Flickr

SeeClickFix.com Goes Multilingual (Now Available in 83 Languages)

Our friends at SeeClickFix have some cool news to share today: The do-it-yourself civic platform is going multilingual. Citizens will soon be able to report non-emergency issues in their community to those accountable for the public space in 83 ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Photo Essay: "My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone," says President Obama

Yesterday, at a townhall meeting with Chinese students in Shaghai, President Obama had much praise for the Internet and its role in democracy, politics and society. Unfortunately, he prefaced his remarks with this statement: "Let me say that I have ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

Facebook Update: Palin Nears a Million Friends; Obama Nears Seven Million

Obama and Palin are both nearing newsworthy milestones: the President is within spitting distance of amassing an amazing seven million friends, while former Governor Palin is so close to a million, she can probably see it from her living room. Mitt ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Facebook Inc.,  Mitt Romney,  Tim Pawlenty,  Technorati

OFA Gets @Barackobama Back Into the Twitterverse

There was a time when Barack Obama was the number one most followed personage on Twitter, back during the campaign season, but after getting elected his staff seemingly let the account go fallow, to be overtaken by celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Barack Obama,  Ashton Kutcher,  Britney Spears,  Ellen DeGeneres

"Ask U.S.": State Department 2.0 on Sudan, Darfur and Public Engagement

Tomorrow afternoon at 3:00pm EST, Special Envoy Scott Gration and Samantha Power, NSC Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs, are going to sit down at the White House with the leaders of the largest, most vocal advocacy groups on Darfur issue, Jerry ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: US State Department,  White House,  Samantha Power,  Jerry Fowler,  Barack Obama

Health Care Reform>Obamacare: The Tide Has Turned

With the House about to vote on the Democratic health care bill tomorrow, I thought it would be interesting to check in on the pulse of the online debate over health care reform. This is of course an unscientific look at the public zeitgeist, but the ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Barack Obama

PdF Europe: Google Fellows Announced for Barcelona Conference

As Google Fellows to PdF Europe, each winner is receiving free admission to the conference, plus two days lodging at the conference hotel. In addition, Google will be hosting a special lunch for Fellows on the opening day of the conference, where they ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Critiquing Matthew Hindman's "The Myth of Digital Democracy"

Here's a rough draft of what I'm going to say at tonight's "Digital Democracy Debate" with author Matthew Hindman at Yale. Let me know in the comments if you think I've missed anything or gotten anything wrong. Hindman is the author of "The Myth of ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  NPR,  Yahoo!,  Glenn Reynolds,  Technorati

A Digital Democracy Debate: Sifry vs Hindman at Yale

Hindman is the author of the 2009 book, "The Myth of Digital Democracy," which argues that "the internet has done little to broaden political discourse but in fact empowers a small set of elites--some new, but most familiar." I don't want to completely ...

From MICAH L. SIFRY, techPresident,  2 Nov 2009

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