Published: 07-04 2003
Title: Free TextMessaging
Topic: Epolitics

http://www.hostingnotcosting.com/ offers a free text messaging service. Your person you send the message to may be charged by his or her provider for receiving it. I tried my one phone number but it doesn't seem to have worked. Not surprising since I don't have sms but a few minutes ago I logged in to sprint.com and the system sent me my password via text message so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Published: 06-23 2003
Title: Websites for poitical action
Topic: Epolitics

I'm collecting information like the following as preparation for a paper I'm scheduled to read at a conference in Waterloo, Ontario Canada this August 9. The conference is called Inventio, and I'm a talking about the remnants of classical rheoric to be found in modern electronic communications. One of the avenues I want to persue is modern versions of the epidictic speach. Given that we don't all have access to the senate floor, we have to find other avenues of influence and the web is providing some.

There's a book on the subject called Smart Mobs. And I just came across a site offered by the democrats called E-Captains that offers to help you organize democratic initiatives via email. I haven't looked at it closely but it seems to be a spinoff of action alert initiatives crossed with the franchise model of commerce. You create a list of people to communicate with, the DNC feeds you information to give to them.