Intro
By election day, Representative Baron Hill’s defeat was understood. But the margin of Republican challenger Todd Young’s victory was not anticipated. Young’s 10 percent lead suggests a significant political shift. Rep. Hill was serving his 10th year in Congress after reclaiming Indiana’s 9th District seat in 2006. As a more moderate, “Blue Dog Democrat,” Hill [...]

The inevitable consequence of one-button publishing is accidental publication. Messages can be distributed to millions on a whim. This isn’t new; people have been sending unprofessional, revealing, or otherwise incriminating e-mails since the advent of internet communication.
Web 2.0 serves to amplify these mistakes. Damage control on the social web is almost impossible with retweets, Google [...]

Twitter gets attention in politics. Traditional journalists increasingly look to a politician’s tweets for source material, and blogs love nothing more than to speculate on the meaning of a vague posting. The politicians who don’t tweet have (I suspect) made a calculated decision to avoid the microblogging site, considering the ease of delegating tweeting to [...]