Been writing 27 July, 2007
Posted by Zack in 2008, Off the Bus, YouTube debate.add a comment
…over at Off the Bus:
GOP pulling out of YouTube debate
Report on Off the Bus coverage of the deabte
Interview with Biden campaign manager
Off the Bus volunteers interview Biden
Getting myself into trouble with Joe Trippi
Recruiting for Off the Bus debate coverage
Ever wonder about who holds those signs in the spin room?
Wow 20 June, 2007
Posted by Zack in Off the Bus, Uncategorized.add a comment
Sooo many people are signing up for Off the Bus. AND emailing in too. People are insanely enthusiastic about this. It’s being received like a glass of ice water in Hell for folks who are sick of the mainstream media ’08 coverage.
Get on Off the Bus 19 June, 2007
Posted by Zack in 2008, Off the Bus.1 comment so far
I’m signing on with Off the Bus—the upcoming citizen journalism site co-published by Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen. I’ll be a roving corespondent for HuffPo and Off the Bus on the 2008 race, and will help out with recruiting and organizing this army of citizen journalists.
I’m really looking forward to this. In 2000, I watched the presidential race as a…well…Internet crank (that’s what they called netroots/blogger types before the rise of the blogs) publishing a parody site and making various other kinds of trouble. In 2004, oddly enough, I got to experience the race from the inside. This time, I’ll be observing as a journalist.
Read more here from Arianna, Jay and myself.
Amanda Michel will be directing this project. At Dean and Kerry and more recently at Assignment Zero, she has been one of the primary pioneers of the kind of online organizing that invites volunteers to do more than click on a link or write a letter. She’s got a knack for providing vols with inspiration and organization without getting in their way or getting bogged down in “serialism” (i.e. feeling it’s necessary to call each volunteer every day for them to be able to succeed). The result is a whole lot of people doing an awful lot.
I’m really looking forward to working with her again. I worked with her on Kerry, where I was her manager. Now she’ll be managing me. Believe me, it’s much, much better that way!
So, starting in a month or two, I’ll be out on the road almost all the time. No, not chasing the candidates, but rather chasing the revolution that’s changing the way politics are done. Please join me by participating in the project yourself as a citizen journalist by signing up at OffTheBus.net.
