Election Watch
Who's on the "People to Watch" list?
Feb 4, 2009 | Ars Technica has just unveiled its picks for the 2009 Tech Policy "People to Watch" list -- check out the Read More
Nevermind Who...What Will the National CTO Do?
Dec 30, 2008 | Like others, we are very curious to learn more about President-elect Barack Obama's pick for the nation's first Chief Technology Read More
Obama Focuses on Science & Tech in Latest Address
Dec 20, 2008 | In his weekly address today, President-elect Barack Obama announced key picks for science and technology roles in his Administration. While he Read More
News Breaks About Obama's Choice for Science Advisor
Dec 18, 2008 | The organizers of ScienceDebate 2008 applauded today's news that President-elect Barack Obama is planning to name Dr. John Holdren to Read More
Obama-Biden Introduce Energy Team, Emphasize Role of Science
Dec 15, 2008 | During today's press conference to announce members of their administration's energy and environment team, both President-elect Barack Obama and Vice Read More
Craig's Take on the National CTO Role
Dec 12, 2008 | We would be remiss if we didn't point to yesterday's post on National Journal's Lost in Transition blog about Tech Read More
Announcing the Tech Policy Predictive Market
Dec 10, 2008 | As we first mentioned on Twitter, we have been working on a new project in partnership with the Information Read More
Obama-Biden's Plan to Offer Americans a Seat at the Table
Dec 9, 2008 | In the lead up to Inauguration Day, organizations representing a variety of interests (including many in the tech/telecom policy space) Read More
Treasury Secretary Named; Commerce, Others On Deck
Nov 24, 2008 | At a news conference in Chicago this morning, President-elect Barack Obama confirmed his decision to name Timothy Geithner as the Read More
Call for Nominations: People to Watch
Nov 18, 2008 | We are excited to officially announce the launch of the first 2009 Tech Policy Who's Who: People to Watch Read More
Event Recap: What Does the Election Mean for Tech?
Nov 7, 2008 | Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of speculation in the last few days about what the election results might Read More
Tech Advisor Joins Prez Transition Team
Nov 6, 2008 | President-elect Barack Obama has wasted no time in naming people to his transition team and, as The Washington Post Read More
President-elect Obama's Tech Blueprint
Nov 5, 2008 | Now that it's clear which Presidential transition team will be springing into action, we'll be watching closely to see whom Read More
Early Look at Congressional Results
Nov 5, 2008 | As I write this, Congressional election results are still being processed. But, according to projections by both CNN and Reuters, Read More
Presidential Transitions in the Age of Twitter
Nov 3, 2008 | Dr. Mark Drapeau, an associate research fellow at the National Defense University, has written an interesting guest post at techPresident.com Read More
The Tech Policy Smackdown (Sans the Smackdown)
Oct 31, 2008 | As you may have heard, New America Foundation and WIRED planned a debate yesterday that had been advertised as "McCain Read More
IT Policy and the Next American President
Oct 29, 2008 | One of our favorite Tech Policy Summit session hosts, Larry Magid, gave a talk last night at Santa Clara University Read More
Getting The Vote Hour Out
Oct 28, 2008 | Election Day is only one week away, and some of the country's leading CEOs are participating in a bipartisan project Read More
CDT Calls on Campaigns to Expose DMCA Requests
Oct 23, 2008 | Have U.S. media companies used "overally aggressive copyright claims" to chill political speech this election season, ignoring fair use in Read More
That National CTO Idea
Oct 22, 2008 | The news that Google CEO Eric Schmidt has decided to publically endorse, and campaign with, Sen. Barack Obama has again Read More
Is the U.S. Taking a Short-Sighted Approach to Innovation?
Oct 21, 2008 | With only two weeks to go until Election Day, Computerworld has published a series of articles about tech policy, including Read More
Prez Candidates on America COMPETES Act
Oct 20, 2008 | The Association for Women in Science and the Society of Women Engineers submitted a series of questions to both of Read More
A Last Look at the Final Debate
Oct 16, 2008 | Whenever the presidential candidates or their running mates mention technology or science in a debate or at a campaign rally, Read More
Tech Policy Summit Q&A With Craig Newmark
Oct 14, 2008 | As we announced last month, the 3rd annual Tech Policy Summit will take place March 23-25, 2009 in the Bay Area Read More
Open Debate Coalition Calls for Greater Transparency
Oct 10, 2008 | With the final presidential debate between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October Read More
Innovation Economics' Role in Keeping the U.S. Competitive
Sep 25, 2008 | BusinessWeek's chief economist Michael Mandel wrote a cover story for the September 22nd issue of the magazine titled "Can America Read More
MySpace and Commission on Presidential Debates Team Up
Sep 17, 2008 | I just finished reading Ars Technica's write-up of MyDebates.org, the new site created by MySpace and the Commission on Presidential Read More
Follow-up: Sen. McCain Answers ScienceDebate's Questions
Sep 15, 2008 | Earlier this month, we wrote about Sen. Barack Obama's answers to ScienceDebate 2008's 14 questions about the most pressing Read More
Focusing Attention on Innovation Policy
Sep 4, 2008 | Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-author Judy Estrin, who worked as CTO of Cisco Systems and currently sits on the boards of Disney Read More
Follow-up: Obama Answers ScienceDebate's Questions
Sep 4, 2008 | We've been following, and supporting, the grassroots efforts of ScienceDebate 2008 for about nine months now. To their credit, the Read More
How Will Presidential Appointments Affect Tech?
Aug 21, 2008 | If you follow us on Twitter, you might have seen this link to an interview with Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitch Read More
NPR's Take on Tech Policy
Aug 6, 2008 | I was driving through Southern California on a business trip last Friday, listening to National Public Radio (NPR), when I heard that the Federal Read More
Sciencedebate's 14 Questions on Innovation
Jul 7, 2008 | Sciencedebate 2008 hasn't been able to convince Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to face-off in Read More
LA Times Gives Props to Arrington's Clout
Jun 11, 2008 | Thanks to Twitter, I discovered a recent Los Angeles Times' article about über blogger Michael Arrington's foray into 2008 election Read More
What Will Change Congress?
Apr 14, 2008 | As we've written before, Stanford law professor Larry Lessig has taken a step back from his work in the copyright Read More
Sciencedebate 2008: Moving to May?
Apr 7, 2008 | With it looking less and less likely that any of the presidential candidates will accept the invite to participate Read More
McCain Adds Whitman as Campaign Co-Chair
Mar 17, 2008 | Longtime Mitt Romney supporter, outgoing eBay CEO Meg Whitman has agreed to co-chair Sen. John McCain's national campaign. According to Read More
Update: Video from AAAS Debate Between Dems' Advisors
Mar 6, 2008 | The team at New Scientist magazine created this short video about last month's debate between the science and tech advisors Read More
Larry Lessig, Newt Gingrich and the C Word
Feb 26, 2008 | Admittedly, Stanford law professor Larry Lessig and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich have little in common when it Read More
Lessig Launches Change Congress; Considers Run
Feb 20, 2008 | Stanford law professor Larry Lessig stepped up his crusade against the "corruption of the political process" yesterday by officially announcing Read More
Update on Sciencedebate 2008
Feb 19, 2008 | It's been a month since we first wrote about our support for Sciencedebate 2008, the grassroots campaign to hold a Read More
Drafting Lessig for Congress
Feb 18, 2008 | Fans of Stanford law professor and Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig are organizing a "Draft Lessig" campaign in hopes that Read More
Survey Says: Zogby/463 Internet Poll
Jan 31, 2008 | 463 Communications has teamed up with the researchers at Zogby International to conduct another Internet poll. The online survey, which was Read More
TechCrunch Names Its Candidates
Jan 29, 2008 | TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has gone from interviewing presidential candidates to endorsing them, announcing earlier today that TechCrunch is backing Sen. Read More
State of the (Tech) Union?
Jan 28, 2008 | President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress tonight. And if past speeches are any indication, Read More
Green Jobs, and Even Greener Investments
Jan 17, 2008 | We first wrote about green-collar jobs last October. Since then, there have been a series of reports, campaign speeches and Read More
The "Youthification" of Congress
Jan 16, 2008 | You may remember a Washington Post editorial last month in which writer Garrett Graff questioned why the American electorate doesn't Read More
Rep. Anna Eshoo Visits Google Constituents
Jan 15, 2008 | Following last November's interview with presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters, Google chairman and CEO Read More
Sciencedebate 2008
Jan 14, 2008 | If you've watched any of the presidential debates thus far, or read coverage of them, you probably have a decent Read More
Carly for VP?
Jan 12, 2008 | There have long been rumors that former Hewlett-Packard chief exec Carly Fiorina has political ambitions, and she had a chance to test Read More
Primary Season Fever
Jan 9, 2008 | Presidential election watchers are abuzz following "comeback" wins by Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton in yesterday's New Hampshire primaries. Read More
TechCrunch Hosts Its Own Prez Primary
Dec 20, 2007 | Apparently, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington isn't content with just interviewing candidates for the U.S. presidency. The über blogger has now decided Read More
What People Search For, According to Google
Dec 14, 2007 | Google has released its annual look at the most popular search terms in the United States. The Google Zeitgeist, as it's Read More
Sen. Chris Dodd's Visit to Google
Dec 11, 2007 | Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) became the eighth presidential candidate to visit the Googleplex in Silicon Valley when he spoke to Read More
Gravel's Take on Tech
Dec 9, 2007 | TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has released a transcript of his fifth presidential candidate interview -- this time, he spoke with Read More
Debating Workforce, H-1B Issues in Iowa
Dec 6, 2007 | Even though Iowa may not have a reputation as a hot bed for tech policy issues, according to Computerworld, some Read More
Dems Use Videos to Explain Iowa Caucus
Dec 5, 2007 | With less than a month to go until the Iowa Caucus, the presidential candidates are pulling out all of the Read More
Expecting Politicians To Be Tech Savvy
Dec 3, 2007 | Progress & Freedom Foundation senior fellow Adam Thierer blogged about a Washington Post op-ed yesterday, in which writer Garrett Graff questioned Read More
The Morning After the Debate
Nov 29, 2007 | There's been plenty of coverage about last night's Republican CNN/YouTube debate in Florida, so we'll keep this brief. As Tech Read More
Dodd Among Voters Submitting YouTube Debate Questions
Nov 26, 2007 | The Republican presidential candidates will face off in Florida this Wednesday during their first CNN/YouTube debate (the Dems took part Read More
Barack Obama's Take on Tech
Nov 26, 2007 | A week after publishing his Q&A with former Sen. John Edwards, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has published the transcript of an Read More
techPresident Grades Candidates
Nov 21, 2007 | Earlier this year, the team at techPresident (a blog that tracks how candidates use the Web) challenged presidential candidates from both parties Read More
Who's Advising the Candidates on Innovation?
Nov 19, 2007 | The effort to figure out where the candidates stand on the issues is intensifying as we get closer to the 2008 Read More
John Edwards' Take On Tech
Nov 19, 2007 | TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has published his latest presidential candidate Q&A -- this one with Democratic contender John Edwards. As we've done Read More
Obama's Innovation Agenda
Nov 14, 2007 | Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is in the Bay Area today, where he'll speak to Googlers at the company's Mountain View Read More
John McCain's Take on Tech
Nov 12, 2007 | Techcrunch blogger Michael Arrington is interviewing presidential candidates to get their views on tech-related issues. We wrote about his first Read More
Election Day '07
Nov 6, 2007 | While today is Election Day, the national media is clearly more focused on the 2008 elections that are now less than a Read More
Mitt Romney's Take on Tech
Nov 1, 2007 | We've written before about the growing role of social media in the 2008 elections -- whether it's YouTube debates, MySpace Read More
Sen. Obama Vows to Make Net Neutrality a Presidential Priority
Oct 29, 2007 | According to News.com, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) told an online audience today that, if elected, he will make Read More
Gravel Visits Google
Oct 12, 2007 | While we continue to stick to our mantra that this site and our Tech Policy Summit conference are strictly Read More
How Green are the Presidential Candidates?
Oct 11, 2007 | The team at the cleantech-focused Earth2Tech blog (an offshoot of GigaOm) has been sizing up the Democratic and Republican Read More
Republicans Debate Economic Issues
Oct 10, 2007 | CNBC, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal hosted a Republican presidential debate yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan that focused on Read More
Tracking the Candidates Online
Oct 3, 2007 | TechPresident.com is a relatively new site about "how the candidates are using the Web, and how the Web is using Read More
Update: Yahoo!'s Virtual Debate Site
Sep 13, 2007 | As we mentioned yesterday, Yahoo!, Huffington Post and Slate hosted a virtual Presidential debate featuring the eight Democratic candidates. Moderator Read More
The Virtual Presidential Debate and Mashups
Sep 12, 2007 | Yahoo!, HuffingtonPost and Slate are jumping into the Presidential debate mix this week by hosting a virtual debate with the Read More
Barack Obama Gets LinkedIn
Sep 12, 2007 | It's no secret that the Presidential candidates vying for the top spot in the 2008 election have been using social Read More
Republican Debate to Focus on Economy
Sep 6, 2007 | CNBC, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal just announced that they're teaming up to host the first 2008 Republican presidential Read More
MySpace and MTV Hosting Presidential Chats
Aug 23, 2007 | There's further evidence that the digital age has taken hold of the '08 elections: according to the Associated Press, News Read More
Today's YouTube Debates
Jul 23, 2007 | As the Democratic presidential candidates prepare for today's CNN-YouTube debate in Charleston, S.C., the focus isn't only on what they Read More
"YouTube Election"
Jul 6, 2007 | A new Associated Press (AP) story looks at the role online video is playing, and may yet play, in the Read More
Presidential Candidate Trivia
Jun 29, 2007 | If you're in the mood for some light-hearted techie trivia, check out this post on JD Lasica's blog that lists Read More
Will 110th Be the "Most Technology-Friendly?"
Nov 13, 2006 | Business 2.0 offers its take on the 110th Congress, predicting that "the new Congress may be the most technology-friendly in Read More
What Does the New Congress Mean for Tech?
Nov 10, 2006 | While time will tell how the 110th Congress will act on legislation that impacts the technology industry and innovation in Read More
Analyzing the Shift in Congress
Nov 9, 2006 | While the dust has barely settled after Tuesday's elections, there is already much talk and activity surrounding the new Democratic Read More
Blogger Reactions to Election 2006
Nov 8, 2006 | (Most) election results are in and, with the news that the Democrats have gained a majority in the House of Read More
Ranking Congress: Who's Best, Who's Worst on Tech?
Nov 2, 2006 | With mid-term elections less than a week away, News.com has published a special report called the Technology Voter Guide 2006 Read More
Editorial on E-Voting
Oct 24, 2006 | With the mid-term elections just two weeks away, the debate continues over the use of electronic voting machines. Critics of Read More
Remember DOPA?
Oct 16, 2006 | A few months ago, we blogged (here and here) about the Deleting Online Predators Act - aka DOPA - that Read More
MySpace Gets Involved in Voter Reg Campaign
Sep 28, 2006 | According to RedHerring.com, MySpace announced yesterday that it's partnering with a non-profit voter registration campaign called Declare Yourself to encourage Read More
Virtual Politicians?
Aug 31, 2006 | The GamePolitics blog reports that former Virgina Governor Mark Warner, a possible 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, is "appearing" at 3:30pm Read More
Hillary's Campaign Hires Blogger
Jun 27, 2006 | According to a NYTimes report on News.com's site, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has a new member of her campaign Read More
Politicians in Cyberspace
May 22, 2006 | An AP story in today's Yahoo! News points out that more politicians -- with a little help from younger, tech Read More
Full House at the FCC?
Mar 10, 2006 | According to News.com's Politics Blog, the FCC is getting closer to filling the fifth and final commissioner seat. Robert McDowell's Read More
