A few recent/upcoming college graduates I know are masking their identities – completely changing their names on Facebook, protecting their Twitter profiles, and taking down their blogs, going into a virtual Witness Protection Program. Why the extreme measures? They’ve been warned by career counselors that potential employers will research the students’ digital identities to look …

The psychic got evicted eventually, but just before she did she saw me on the stairs one day and said “You see? I was right.” I asked her what she meant and she said “You are in love with that boy. I see him come and go all the time.”

Current campaigns and technologies have explored maybe 5% of what’s possible in the near and intermediate future. Who will take the problem of online organizing seriously enough to get there first and revolutionize political action?

Can game mechanics and reward systems change the way we think of politics and activism?

My friend and colleague Nancy Scola wrote an interesting piece wondering who will lead Obama’s 2012 new media efforts. Thus far, it seems like 2008’s team is either otherwise engaged or in some cases, not interested. That’s a shame, because I know a lot of talented people who worked on the campaign. But I can’t …