I will be back in Los Angeles until Saturday night for the American Idol finale and a little vacation, and for once I am not bringing the laptop with me. There will be a link post tomorrow, but there won’t be any posts after until I return to Phoenix.

Until then, keep checking out Future Majority. See you next week.

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As you may have noticed, there have not been many original posts over the last two weeks. This is because I have been focused on putting together Future Majority’s Guide to Winning With Young Voters with fellow FM editor Sarah Burris, which is a time-intensive task. The guide will be released in the near future for your youth-organizing enjoyment and then I will be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

I’ll still be compiling the links posts, so keep coming back to see what articles are hitting the internet tubes about young voters and technology.

Thanks for reading the site. Here are a couple videos to brighten your day. (Warning: they include the occasional naughty word)

Merton’s Piano Chat Improv

Ben Folds Tribute to Merton at NC Concert

And remember to thank your Democratic member of Congress if they voted for reform yesterday.

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I set up my laptop’s webcam to randomly take a picture while I was working on stuff. Which reminds me: I should probably get a haircut.

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I’m happy to announce the launch of the new KevinBondelli.com forums, which I hope will be a place that visitors can discuss the youth vote, online organizing, share best practices, and more.

You can reach the forums at KevinBondelli.com/forums and through the button at the top right of the sidebar.

The forums were created with Vanilla, an open-source forum framework.

I hope you will find the forums useful as well as provide your feedback on potential categories and other improvements.

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Apparently I have reached “Did you mean?” status on Google. Unfortunately to discover this I had to do something embarrassing like make a typo in my own name during a vanity search.

It’s the small things in life…

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Yesterday I reached the 1,000 post mark here on KevinBondelli.com and I want to thank everyone that has been reading and sharing over the last couple years.

It’s also that time where I ask you all to make a contribution to the blog to help cover hosting, domain, and other associated costs. You can donate to the blog via PayPal through the button below.

Thanks again and hope to see you around for the next 1,000 posts.

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Posting may be light until I return on Monday.

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The election has come and gone. We have elected Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States and young voters were instrumental in his victory. We have witnessed a groundbreaking use of technology by the campaign that will change the way politics is played. Up to this point I have focused mostly on the campaign side of things, and while I will continue to write about the use of technology and youth mobilization in campaigns, I will also be expanding the subject matter that I cover.

As Democrats and young Americans we are transitioning from campaigning to governance, and my writing will reflect that. I will be writing a lot more about public policy, government 2.o, the role of young people in government, and strengthening the role of young people within the Democratic Party’s power structure.

Not all of the policy topics I will be writing about will be directly youth related, though I will be writing as a young voice in America. It is important that we as young Americans share our voices on all of the issues, not solely those that are labled as youth issues.

A lot of my youth-specific writing will be over on Future Majority, the best youth vote blog in the country, so remember to check that out.

Thank you all for reading and sharing my articles, posting your comments, and being a part of this community. Your participation means the world to me.

There’s a lot left for us to do. This is only the beginning. Let’s get to work.

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I made a new header for this site to replace the old typo one.

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