by Rob Cottingham | Sep 23, 2008 | Politics, Social Media, Technology
That there is my first contribution to The Orange Room, the federal New Democratic Party’s remarkable new social media initiative. Go check it out. You’ll find user-contributed and user-rated media as well as a kind of crowd-sourced rapid response network... by Rob Cottingham | Jul 23, 2008 | Blogging, Politics, Social Media
Over on Social Signal, I’ve blogged about the Quebec chief electoral officer’s intention to start applying election spending rules to the web (CBC story here.) Here’s the upshot, but if this kind of thing interests you, I hope you’ll feel free... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 5, 2008 | Politics, Vancouver
I’ve been remiss in not mentioning Geoff Meggs’ candidacy for a Vision Vancouver council nomination. I worked with Geoff while wearing my speechwriter hat more times than I can count, and was constantly amazed by his ability to leap from high-level... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 20, 2008 | Politics, Technology
The news over the past few weeks – or, more accurately, over and over and over over the past few weeks – has been all about Barack Obama’s digitally-recorded comments about small-town working-class bitterness over economic insecurity. I’m torn.... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 10, 2008 | Communicating, Politics, Technology
I have a rule in politics that has served me well: never attribute to malice or conspiracy what can be explained just as easily by incompetence. You may remember this story from back in 2006, at the culmination of the bitter primary battle between Ned Lamont and...