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Quick Hits — January 30, 2007

January 30th, 2007

My-head-is-still-on-the-slopes catch-up edition.

• Drudge, global warming shut down Senate site. Website fall down, go boom.
• A new online Capitol Hill news site launches, and Wonkette sneers sneeringly.
• Your PCs forecast climate future. Distributed computing for advocacy purposes — SETI Project, you are not @home alone.
• Marketers Get Weak Signal from Users on Cell-Phone Ads. Apparently, people aren’t too excited about phone-spam. Shocker, that.
• How to Improve Email Deliverability: 3 Steps Tested by Real-Life Mailer. From MarketingSherpa.
• Micropayments, Political Giving and Microsoft. Can tiny amounts of money add up? What about FEC reporting requirements?
• Two articles from Democracy in Action: A Website By Post, Or, How They Communicated Before the Internet (you’ll never look at direct mail the same way again) and a bit of Convio/GetActive Merger Scuttlebutt.
• Two YouTube articles on ReelPopBlog: YouTube rolls out some site improvements and Google integration with YouTube bumps YouTube market share 18%.
• Attack ads go online and underground. Online political videos gone wild!
• Speaker Pelosi’s Blog Outreach. Apparently, they’ve lost my number, though — the phone is tragically silent…
• 23 Ideas for Finding New Readers for Your Blog. More good tips from ProBlogger.
• Counterculture-joy link of the day: Kucinich to oversee Office of National Drug Control Policy!

– cpd

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