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Debate Format Wars
Wired.com’s Sarah Lai Stirland summerizes the changes happening in the world of “Town Hall Meetings” and electoral debates with the advent of more constituent-centered, web-savvy debates. Her take: the MySpace/MTV style of openness is much preferred:
MySpace-MTV Town Hall Wins … Continue reading
Facebook’s Beacon: Privacy and Social Advertising
Here’s the really dangerous part about social networking sites: when they mess up, they tend to mess up huge. Facebook recently began a new advertising service called Beacon, which allows your online purchases to be added into your news feed … Continue reading
Cuomo Makes Negligent Landlords Responsible for Crime
Andrew Cuomo is cracking down on neighborhood crime by targeting landlords who allow persistently troublesome tenants stay at their properties. This plan has a lot of points for it, and a lot of points against it, but the coalitions of … Continue reading
Practice for the Tony Benefit
I spent yesterday evening practicing with The Buddhahood ahead of the upcoming Tony Cavagnaro tribute, and I’m starting to get really, really excited about the show. Apparently, I’ll be playing Through the Veil with Nate Coffey, Peet Mugnolo, and … Continue reading
If it Wasn’t for New York Politics. . .
. . . New York might actually be a pretty OK place to live. Alas, we may find ourselves sporting RealID cards – a thing which I would have thought neither Right nor Left would have wanted – because Spitzer … Continue reading
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