Empowered

Hillary Clinton’s president campaign is inviting people to contribute “reactions, comments, and questions” to the speech she gave at her Saturday kick-off rally in New York City using Genius.com’s annotation tool, CNN.com’s Tanzina Vega reports. You can check out the results here.

Katie Dowd, Clinton’s digital director, tells Yasmin Aslam of MSNBC that “Our goal as a digital team is to continue creating new and innovative ways for people to own a piece of this campaign—to make this their campaign and to empower them through any piece of technology in their hand to be a fundraiser, a storyteller, an organizer and a voter.” Also, that her Earth Day spirit animal is a “giant squid.”

Some experienced political operatives are working as unpaid field organizing interns on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Ben Jacobs reports for the Guardian, and some advocates for fair wages like Mikey Franklin of the Fair Pay Campaign say it’s wrong to exploit people’s labor this way.

In classic FastCompany style, Jon Gertner reports on the U.S. Digital Service, calling it “Obama’s stealth startup,” which is neither in stealth nor a startup. But it is indeed overhauling the federal government’s digital infrastructure, bit by bit.

Uber is ordering its drivers not to participate in taxi protests in Eastern China and warning them that it will use its ability to track their GPS coordinates to determine if they are disobeying, the Wall Street Journal’s Colum Murphy reports.

Recaps of Personal Democracy Forum 2015 keep percolating. Here’s a really extensive list of highlights and pointers to useful follow-up resources, by Jacob Caggiano. And Stephanie Zimmerman of Azavea zeroes in on the issue of power, which ran through many of the main hall talks.