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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