Holy Crap! Burning Sensation Plays on Friday

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Holy Crap! Burning Sensation Plays on Friday

Woo ha! The day is almost at hand…time to Cry Havoc and Loose the Dogs of Rock! Details below…

[Note: the upstairs at Solly's is fairly small, so come early to guarantee your spot on the dance floor. You can always grab a pre-show drink at the first-floor bar. Come say howdy if you go — I'm the guy on bass.]

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Quick Hits — January 18, 2007

14 Million Online Political Activists, according to Pew Report. Micah Sifry breaks the story, the San Jose Mercury News (among many others) covers it and the Pew site has the numbers. A word of caution before we get too excited — TV is still king (for now).
Blog Readership On Capitol Hill. The majority of Hill staffers are reading blogs, and the more senior staffers are more likely to do so. Includes a handy list of popular Hill blogs.
Citizen Journalism: Care2 Member Scoops Mainstream Media. A social news success story!
Some guy from Illinois (kinda, sorta) announces for president, and Slate dissects his online videos.
More on the presidential race from the Bivings Report: Who’s it Gonna be? 2008 Presidential Candidate Websites and Is the Obama Campaign Going to Embrace Consumer Generated Video?
When to Ask For Donations. Monday sucks (shocker), Thursday rules!
Two Micropersuasion articles to check out: Newspapers See Success in Moving to Blogs (more and more traffic is derived from their blogs) and Two New Tools for Tracking Online Videos (useful for tracking viral campaigns).
Let The Eagle Soar: Behind The RedState Acquisition. Blog P.I. investigates, and now I have Ashcroft’s song stuck in my head (please shoot me).

– cpd

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Fascinating Use of a Wiki to Encourage Open Government

It’s not exactly wiki-ing the power structure in the sense that I talked about it a couple of months ago, but it’s probably a more practical approach to using a wiki to influence government policy. As Elizabeth Williamson wrote in the Post on Monday (in an article tucked into the bottom of the Federal Page, if I remember right), a site called WikiLeaks.org has been set up to allow anonymous posting of sensitive government documents from around the world. As their site says:
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Convio/GetActive Merger Definitely Stirring Up Interest

Checking my server stats today, I found a slew of referrals from searches for some combination of “Convio” and “GetActive” — close to two dozen, with most coming from Google but several from Technorati, the blog search engine. Considering that I only wrote about the merger mid-afternoon yesterday and that the stats updated at 4 this morning, that’s a BUNCH of activity for such a short period of time. Another indicator, along with email traffic on advocacy lists, that this development in the industry has people interested and in many cases concerned. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of losing diversity among vendors and also don’t want to lose the good qualities of GetActive, a company I’ve been using for two years and several of whose employees I’ve come to know well. We’ll see how this one shakes out.

– cpd

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