Category Archives: American politics

MediaStyle at Congress 2010: 3

June 1, 2010 Written by

Mark Kingwell delivered a talk on our place as citizens in “capita democracy”. Kingwell claims that capitalism is in its third stage: post-modern capitalism. This stage is marked by the commodification of status (or coolness), the proliferation of desire, and our acceptance of our selves as consumers. We live in a time of the American…
Read More »


Report measures internet influence on political staff

November 4, 2009 Written by

An important study was released today on the influence of online research in world capitals specifically with political staffers. Unfortunately, Canada’s public policy makers were not survey for this study – but I think the broad trends present most certainly apply in the Canadian context. Edelman’s Capital Staffers Index (link opens PDF) seeks to measure…
Read More »


ChangeCamp Twitter Collaboration

June 9, 2009 Written by

At ChangeCamp Ottawa, I was proud of the way we worked with Twitter as a “back channel” to facilitate information sharing and collaboration.  This is a quick set of bullet points on what I think worked and what I think could be improved at future versions of ChangeCamp.  At the end of the post, I’ve…
Read More »


From the Blog