NRN: Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration Part I

Long overdue, but here’s the video of the Progressive Space Policy panel I convened in August ‘08 at Netroots Nation. Note: No audio till 12:30. First of two parts.

NRN: Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration Part II

Part II of the Netroots Nation panel on Progressive NASA on 7/18/08…

1.2 Million Fake Copies of New York Times Declare End of Iraq War

We need humor in these trying times– preferably didactic humor that gives us a new perspective or that makes us feel liberated and inspired. There are few clandestine organizations on Earth today who provide that too us as consistently and dramatically as The Yes Men.
Thanks to them, 1.2 million copies of newspapers appearing to be [...]

How Online Organizing in ‘04 and ‘08 Can Improve our Federal Government in ‘09

Recently I was asked to reflect on how the lessons of online organizing by those of us who worked in the 2004 Presidential campaign have impacted not only the 2008 Presidential campaign (in which Dean ‘04 and Clark ‘04 veterans teamed up to create Blue State Digital, the technology backbone of Obama’s online operation), but [...]

Video of my talk at PSFK San Francisco

This video is of my panel presentation to the PSFK San Francisco conference on July 17th, 2008… I greatly enjoyed the conversation with Ezra Cooperstein of Current.tv about how to transform large enterprises in stodgy industries.