Quick Hits — April 9, 2008
- Update: Bloggers, DIY Filmmakers Capture S.F. Olympic Protest.
- F.B.I.: Lieberman 2006 Crashed Its Own Site. “Cyber-attack” was friendly fire episode.
- Queen Rania of Jordan opens communication with the West via Youtube.
- The Invisible Negative Campaign. Conference calls pour bitter acid in reporters’ ears.
- Truckers are Organizing Online: Is a Nationwide Shutdown Coming? 10-4.
- Charlton Heston Dies; Wikipedia Beats the Major News Sites to the Story. Via Micropersuasion.
- RNC Out-Twittering DNC. DNC too busy raising money.
- P.O.W. to Power Broker, A Chapter Most Telling. A fascinating look at a critical period in John McCain’s life.
- Five-Step Strategy to Market Your Nonprofit Online.
- The Fall of the Report of Drudge.
- Google AdWords for Nonprofits: 10 Tips About Keywords.
- Al Gore’s $300 million. Some of it’s going for blogads.
- What’s ahead for social advertising?
- Presidential Yahoo Buzz: Nationwide, PA, NC.
- Leno apologizes for ‘gayest’ gaffe. Was pursued by an outraged squirrel, plus a lot of online activists.
- Lost in McCainSpace.
- Write like a blogger. Only don’t die in the process.
- Stoners in the Mist. Flash presentation is modern-day successor to 50s anti-everything “educational” films, also has user-generated content angle. Via Wonkette.
- House Staffers Livid Over Web Site. LegiStorm founder defends himself on NPR.
- Jake Tapper’s smoke detector goes off at ABC News. “That fact simply highlights a growing narcissistic disease within the campaign press corps in which members increasingly see themselves as central players in the unfolding political production. Specifically, with regard to the Democratic primary, the press clearly views itself as the third candidate on the stage.”
- Lefty bloggers get free trip to Israel.
- Mapping Content to Better Tell a Story: Refugee Camps on Google Earth.
- Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the US Carbon Footprint. Google Maps version would kick ass.
- Hillary Tries Grassroots Budgeting. Clinton’s choose-your-adventure fundraising tactic.
- New Clinton Radio Spot Goes After Obama on Energy Policy. Dig the tag cloud.
- Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat. Zombies now teaming up teaming up with their natural allies; genocidal robot/zombie war against humankind looms.
- How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. We gotcha covered.
- Citizen journalism and capacity building.
- ‘Congress Has Given Up On The Actual World.’ Daily Show takes on the Second Life Congress.
- U.S. Webcasters Have It Easy (Compared To China).
- Creepy… I’m Sorry, But it’s Just Creepy. McCain girls finally break Alan Rosenblatt’s will to live.
– cpd
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