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Quick Hits — August 21, 2007

August 21st, 2007

• Users’ Online Time Spent Mostly on Content - Not Communications, Commerce. Content is king!
• Tech Savvy Protesters take on China, but when is it appropriate to spam the Great Firewall?
• Social networks not just for kids, as Boomer site pitches own political tent. See what all those Cialis ads have led to?
• Building a Successful Internet Presence.
• Sidestepping the ‘macaca’ moments. Politicians’ desperate desire to be boring.
• Democratic Advisers Take Posts in Group Opposing Wal-Mart.
• Cost of Saving the Climate Meets Real-World Hurdles. On problems with the selling of carbon offsets online.
• As Billboards, Public Phones Always Work. Does advertising assure the survival of pay phones?
• Army Reports Brass, Not Bloggers, Breach Security. “It’s clear that official Army websites are the real security problem, not blogs,”
• More military threats: Russia Orders Long-Range Bomber Patrols. Backfire bombers, coming soon to a backyard near you.
• How Google Works. Nice visual overview, suggested by my NET colleague Erica Peth.
• Which Presidential Candidates Have Mastered Google?
• Mobile Advertising is Irritating. Shocking news from the world of marketing.
• More fallout from Wikipedia edit tracking: Vote On the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs, and find out about The Feds Who Edit Wikipedia. Lamest Wiki story, as noted by tPrez and about 10,000 NY Times commenters: Messing With Iowa.
• 13 Winning Ways to Make Enemies in the Press. Never too early in the week for self-sabotage.
• Rule #1 In E-Politics: Don’t Attack The Bloggers. But what if they’re annooooooying?
• Three Strategies for Thriving on the Decentralized Web.
• The continued usefulness of direct mail in the Internet era.
• A Simple Yahoo Pipes RSS Filtering Example.
• Investing In Netroots Innovation.
• Cheap media, cheap ads. Seth Godin takes on a common mistake.
• Facebook Opens Email Up A Little; I Want More. C.f. Newsweek’s take on Facebook, via David All, and Facebook rules for the rest of us (when is a poke not a good idea?).
• EmergencyCheese: A Citizen Journalist gets a taste of MSM.
• Beware the Dark Side of PR 2.0. Spoilsport.
• The Untold Story of the Cheney ‘Quagmire’ Video. The making of an Internet hit.
• Why the YouTube Election Should Evolve into the Gaming Election. Because we have 14 months to go and desperately need a distraction?
• Late addition! Google Maps are now embeddable, via Rochelle Robinson.
• A final sad note: the geek community loses a founder, as Joe Engressia, Expert ‘Phone Phreak,’ Dies. The first guy to manipulate the phone system by whistling in perfect pitch, he was an original hacker — you gotta love someone who picks a city to live in because he likes the quirks in its phone circuitry.

– cpd

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