Month: September 2010

Ad wars 2010: the art of the takedown

The Washington Times reports. Attack ads are nothing new in American politics, but the record-setting sums spent on campaign advertising this election cycle have also produced a bumper crop of candidates demanding that ads be taken down and removed from the airwaves because of distorted, questionable or outright false facts and statements.

Mobile donations and the gatekeepers

That’s what they’re talking about over at TechPresident: As we see political organizing — including the small-dollar donations that have been heralded as the cornerstone of distributed, technology-powered politics — moving from the wild west of the World Wide Web to places like cell phones and Apple apps, we’re adding new corporate gatekeepers to the […]