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Quick Hits — June 26, 2007

June 26th, 2007

• Late addition: Community Counts: Real Participation in the Debates. People are stepping up and fixing the problems with YouTube’s debate video process.
• Why MySpace is for freaks and Facebook is for preps. I KNEW I felt out of place on Facebook…Salon’s Machinist blog looks at a new analysis of the two sites’ different demographics.
• Facebook Spam on the Rise — the Changing Face of Email Permission. When friendship isn’t commitment.
• Web 3.0: The Future of Video. “The future of video is professional content with a twist. Interactivity. Targeted to niche audiences, by niche additions.”
• Pro-Romney website dispels Mormon myths. For once, let’s skip the “garment” jokes.
• Bloomberg Announcement Crashes Unity ‘08 Site. Collateral damage is sometimes inevitable in war.
• The Mobile-Phone Primary: Are cell-phone users screwing up Ron Paul’s poll numbers? Slate sez, not so much.
• Forget those new guys, it’s McGovern in ‘72! Via Kevin Reid of IDI.
• Digital Marketing Key to Booze Advertising. A look at niche marketing. You’ll find me in the Busch and PBR demographic.
• Social networks geared for offline success? Another Kevin Reid find. Hey Burt and Ha-Hoa — this guy’s tryin’ to muscle in on your turf.
• An amazing new video-editing program. Online video-editing and hosting.
• PoliticalWire Launches Political News Video Aggregator.
• YouTube dirty tricks and presidential debate Buzz.
• Google to Shut Down Gmail Germany if Bundestag Passes Surveillance Law.
• ‘Great Firewall’ Marks Flickr its Next Victim. Censorship continues to suck.
• Online Branding Takeaways. A Frogloop report from last week’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable.
• What is YOUR Audience Doing Online? Wasting time, looking for love, or something more sinister?
• Estonia Presses Bush for Cyber-Attack Research Center Critical quote: “NATO was designed to counter physical threats and hasn’t yet developed detailed plans for cyber warfare.” Hey kids, how about we get ready to fight the NEXT war instead of the last one?
• Gates Dodges Cyber Attack. Don’t bother calling NATO.
• ‘BONG HiTS 4 JESUS’: Nevermind. Hooray! Schools can crack down on speech — thank god, I was afraid we might teach those little bastards to think for themselves, or something.
• Top 5 stoopid YouTube questions for politicians. Let’s rethink that YouTube presidential debate idea…via ReelPop.
• Ron Paul and Distributed Online Campaigning. The advantages of having a feature-poor website. Hmm, where have we heard this before?
• The Top Consideration When Choosing a Free Blogging Platform. Whether or not chicks dig it, of course.
• A Crisis Communications Primer: 10 Tips for Managing the Interview. Short and clever, with a nice payoff at the end.

– cpd

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