techPresident:
Cross-posted from Epolitics.comHere at e.politics, we're happy to read things so you don't have to -- though it this case you should, because David Plouffe's The Audacity to Win is a great read and one hell of a glimpse into the strategy, tactics and execution of a remarkably successful political operation.Suspecting the bo (Read More)
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As two new posts at the top of the E.U. were to be filled Thursday, Britain formally dropped its campaign to install its former leader Tony Blair as president.
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Technology is not just changing the way that high-end brands communicate with their customers. It is also broadening the definition of luxury itself. (Read More)
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American Express said Wednesday that it would buy Revolution Money, a provider of Internet-based payment services started by Steve Case, AOL's co-founder, for $300 million. (Read More)
techPresident:
It was rather attention grabbing how President Obama pooh-poohed China's so-called Great Firewall, the somewhat holey and ever shifting set of restrictions on what China's people are able to read, hear, watch, and do when the go online. Given the setting -- a townhall in Shanghai organized in part by the Chinese government (Read More)
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In remarks that were not easy to see in China, President Obama implicitly criticized China's censorship of the Internet at a forum in Shanghai on Monday. (Read More)
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Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and other hosts on MSNBC are calling on the president to keep his campaign promises about health care, civil liberties and other issues.
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Bloomberg L.P., using the cash stream from its namesake terminals, is on a campaign to become the most influential news organization — anywhere.
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Sarah Palin’s new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.
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Bloomberg L.P., using the cash stream from its namesake terminals, is on a campaign to become the most influential news organization — anywhere.
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techPresident:
"Abdul Qahar, Kunar Provincial Deputy Director of Education, stands watch while members from the Provincial Reconstruction Team Civil Affairs, based at Camp Wright, Afghanistan, deliver a truck load of school supplies." Flickr photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brian Boisvert.Passed along without comment, which seems fittin (Read More)
techPresident:
The Washington Post's Keith B. Richburg has a great look at tech-empowered political and social resistance in China, where taking an online stand against the authorities can earn you much more than an unkind word from powers that be. A powerful culture of civic watchdoggery seems to be developing, despite the conside (Read More)
techPresident:
As others have noted, David Plouffe's book on his time as campaign manager of Obama for America is surprisingly open and candid, more Dreams from my Father than the anodyne Audacity of Hope. Even only a few dozen pages in, there are revealing glimpses of the role that technology, the Internet, and the Obama '08 new media te (Read More)