It seems to me that on the web the people who make the biggest splash aren’t always successful. Think about all the spectacular .com failures who had all the money, fame, and dreams in the world. The reality of the Web 2.0 mini-boom we’re experiencing is that the big success stories – Flickr, TheFaceBook, del.icio.us […]
YP4 Virtual Town Hall Tomorrow
This call I’m helping organize for YP4 will be really interesting, one of our fellows is a published author. We are excited to celebrate Black History Month with a special Town Hall Meeting conference call: Strides for Social Justice: The Struggle for Educational Equality A discussion about past struggles for educational equality and the lessons […]
ACLU Town Hall On Presidential Power
The ACLU is sponsoring a live webcast on Monday, February 20th at 11 a.m. EST on the topic of presidential power. The presenters include: * Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union * John W. Dean, former White House counsel * Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional […]
Studying the Political Web
Two reports have recently been issued in the field of nonprofit technology that I think are important to point out. Here’s the first: In the for-profit dot.com world, the bottom line is easy to measure — it comes down to dollars and cents. For nonprofit organizations, success is more difficult to define. How many people […]
Unify Your Executive
Typically behind the times politically I had been hearing some rumblings lately about a couple buzzwords you may have heard, the “unitary executive” theory of presidential power and President Bush’s practice of issuing “signing statements” when he signs bills into law. (I have to thank in part Diane Rehm’s Feb. 7th show) Some simple googling […]
Tasting the “Delicious Frappe of Executive Priviledge”
But we are facing a deadly enemy that wants to hit us again. And hit us hard. And as President, I’ve got to stop all the hitting. We celebrate tonight the confirmation of Justice Ah-leet-toe. He’s going to be a powerful ally in the war on terror. Because he’s going to let me hit whoever […]
The Long Shadow
of Marion Barry still looms large over D.C.’s political landscape. He’s been in the news recently, reviving the usual prejudices. Yet exactly who is Barry? How should we judge his legacy? Sam Smith has some interesting reflections about precisely that topic.