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Drinking from the Firehose: Why Obama Should Stay the Hell Off Twitter
Colin Delany [@epolitics] gives an interesting perspective on the question whether leading politicians should use Twitter:
But I’d also argue that Twitter is fundamentally a bad match for a Chief Executive, for exactly the same reasons that so many other people are drawn to it. [...]

Klaus-Peter Schöppner: „Partei der Mitte“: Der Chancentod der CDU
An interesting analysis of the state of things for the CDU before the German election campaign 2009.
Henry Farrell: Political scientists in public debate
This is a nice conversation starter about the roles political scientists should play in the public discourse about politics.
Joshua-Michele Ross: The Rise Of The Social [...]

Adam Rogers: Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic
In all the Watchmen-Hype that is thrown our way, this is a welcome piece of reflective commentary on comics, superheroes, and some extraordinary gentlemen. Wired interviews the author of Watchmen, Alan Moore.
Bruce Sterling: What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at [...]

10,000 hours: Seth Godin comments on Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book Outliers. He doubts Gladwell’s magic 10k hours thesis.
Politics is Viral — AND Local: Colin Delany emphasizes the importance of local communities for online campaigns.
Good advice from writers to start the new year: Lisa Gold suggests a few new year resolutions for writers.
The Edge Annual Question [...]

What Erick Said by Patrick Ruffini: Great post by Patrick Ruffini on the need for techonogists in political parties to provide the foundations for political campaigns. He also adds some nice observations about the problems of old-school political communicators to adapt to “the culture of the Web”.
Rebuilding the Party: The Technology by Erick Erickson: [...]