Jon Henke

Jon Henke is an Internet Strategy and Communications Consultant. He has worked for the Fred Thompson and George Allen campaigns, the Arts+Labs coalition, the Auto Alliance and with many other campaigns and organizations. Previously, he was the New Media Advisor to the Senate Republicans in Senator McConnell’s Senate Republican Communication Center. Congressional Quarterly said he “launched one of the first and most successful blogger outreach operations on the Capitol Hill, one that has served as a template for other offices”, and the DC Examiner’s Mark Tapscott called him “one of the sharpest New Media strategists on the Right.” He has been a blogger since 2003.

Latest from Jon Henke

Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality

In Scientific American, Tim Berners-Lee seems to argue right past the important policy issues facing the Internet today.  Instead of describing actual policy or technology problems, he suggests implausibly apocalyptic outcomes.  For instance, Berners-Lee says… The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. Sounds serious. How is it threatened?  Well, ...

Jeff Jarvis on Cable

As I’ve mentioned before, I am skeptical of “the Internet has changed everything!” analyses.  It’s great for the imagination, but it has a tendency not to provide much useful guidance.  I bring that up because of an exchange I saw between Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen on Twitter the other day.  Andrew Keen had asked ...