Andrew Golis

Oh thank god.  Otherwise I’d have to put up blog posts.

Since delicious’s relaunch, the automatic link blogging doesn’t seem to be working.  So check my delicious page for all the latest and greatest until I get things working again.

The guys from predictify.com asked me to be their “VIP” this week.  Essentially, that means my mug is featured on their homepage with the question I’m posing to the community:

With the help of an email list estimated to have over 5 million addresses, Barack Obama has shattered fundraising records, mounted an unprecedented offline organizing effort, and stayed in almost daily contact with his most fervent supporters. By election day in November, that list could easily double or triple in size.

If he wins, will Obama take the list with him to the White House to activate his base; hand it over to the DNC; or, as did Howard Dean in 2004, spin the group off into an independent grassroots organizing effort?

Micah Sifry’s brilliant essay, “Obama’s Organization, and the Future of American Politics,” was the inspiration.  If for some reason you didn’t read it when I fawned over it in my del.icio.us links, do it now.  It’s simple an essential piece of movement analysis to understand the political moment in which we find ourselves.

I’ll be fascinated to watch their community hash this out.  I did, after all, in a past life design and help build a political prediction site of my own.

What’s your prediction?  What will Obama do with that list?

The subtitle of this blog is “mostly links,” and that’s because I have a day job that isn’t blogging (but instead managing a network of blogs) so it’s often difficult for me to shift in and out of writing mode and provide you with any unique insights you couldn’t just find from reading the articles I’m reading.

But I recognize that the last two weeks or so the blog could easily be called “almost completely links.” Between a week of vacation, four nights in Austin for Netroots Nation, a few days in between to transition and a week after to get my bearings back at TPM, things have been quite busy.

But, this week hopefully I’ll be able to find time to start writing again, probably to share some thoughts that have been marinating on the progressive movement’s awful but inevitable choice between justice and progress, mainstream media’s painfully slow emergence into the hyperlink economy of web media, and the Obama Campaigns coming decision on movement management.  Movement and new media analysis, woo!

Thanks to the growing number of you that are reading, I’ll work to start getting the thoughts flowing again.

PS: Just figured out how to blog from my iPhone.  Expect some fun stuff to pop up here as a result.

Update: H/T to Matt Cordell, who originally came up with the Monty/Churchill concept. Also, thanks for reading the site Matt.  You’ve doubled my traffic.

You decide.

This will be my last dog post.  Back to work and back to very serious/important new media blogging.

Check out that farmer’s tan!

Monty declares victory on the green in Oak Bluffs before going to the beach to learn to swim.

The lady is working on her book, I’m mostly playing scrabulous.  Life is good.

Apparently del.icio.us auto blog posting decided to stop working.  No clue why.  I toyed with the settings so hopefully the daily link post will start up against this evening.  In the meantime, you can just subscribe to http://del.icio.us/andrew.golis or drop by to see what’s what.

Alright, back to vacation.

I’m in Martha’s Vineyard with the lady for the week, so I won’t be doing any blogging.  I will likely, however, have lots of links to share in my daily del.icio.us post because I’m catching up on my non-work reading between trips to the beach and frisbee with the dog.  Enjoy!