This week has been a great one for conservatives across the nation. Scott Brown’s victory proved that, in the words of the increasingly vulnerable Barbara Boxer, “Every state is now in play.” His victory also demonstrated that Republicans can achieve many of the successes that led to Barack Obama becoming the 44th President of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘peer production’
How Far Has the Republican Party Come? Grading the GOP’s Progress Since November 4
Since their devastating defeat on November 4, Republicans have been working to rebuild and turn the tide of the past two cycles. They took major steps in doing so, including replacing RNC Chairman Mike Duncan with Michael Steele and becoming involved with national organizations such as Rebuild the Party that focus on a complete reformation [...]
“New Media” Must Become “Media”
Let’s take a glimpse at the evolution of the role of technology and so-called “new media” in politics. In the early years, there were “Web” departments — for example, my colleague Patrick Ruffini served as the “webmaster” for Bush-Cheney ‘04. The new jargon for this role has become “new media,” which typically serves as an [...]
RNC Tech Summit = Peer Production
Yesterday, I expressed concern about the fact that newly elected RNC Chairman Michael Steele has yet to make “any significant new effort to win over millennials.” Today, however, I want to recognize Steele for something he has done exceedingly well. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I have on a [...]
A Great Step: John Boehner Answers Questions from Digg Users
I just saw this on Digg: an interview in which Mark Preston, CNN’s Political Editor, asks the top user-submitted questions from Digg users to House Minority Leader John Boehner. This is the sort of openness and willingness to embrace peer production that we need to continue to build upon. It’s certainly a good step forward. [...]
The Twitter Revolution and “Top Conservatives on Twitter”
For this blog post, I’m going to assume that you are already somewhat familiar with Twitter (although CNET has a great newbie’s guide if you’re not).
For a long time, I shied away from using Twitter. It just didn’t appeal to me, although my lack of interest wasn’t due to any particular reason. Finally, in August [...]
Forget the Ideas Czar or Network: We Must Create Ideas Through Peer Production
Patrick Ruffini recently wrote a piece arguing that the GOP needs an “ideas czar”, while Soren Dayton disagrees, insisting that, “The beltway is the disease not the cure.” Regardless of where you stand on this argument, both Patrick and Soren raise a critical, underlying point: the Republican Party needs a way to bring new, innovative [...]
