e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics

Quick Hits — May 13, 2008

May 13th, 2008

• Update: MoveOn Targets McCain Aides.
• Obama: Smear emails “not just a random sort of viral thing”.
• Racist Secret Service E-Mails. Oof. I mean really, oof. Stupid enough to think, even more stupider to email.
• How to spot Photoshop chicanery.
• Why is this site password protected? Burt Edwards wants to know.
• Can Bob Barr Tap Into Ron Paul’s Movement? C.f. Libertarian Bob Barr Hopes to Scoop Up Ron Paul’s Internet-Driven Support and Ron Paul Supporters, What Are Your Plans?
• MoveOn picks winner of Obama ad contest.
• Does his ad buy prove his critics wrong? Obama is online this week in WV, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania….
• On the Dangers of Hacked Computer Networks and Inadvertant Nuclear War.
• Unjustifiable Carnage, Uneasy Alliances, and Lots of Self-Doubt: What Grand Theft Auto IV gets right about gangland and illegal economies.
• Obama Looks Ahead to Oregon Primary in E-mail Push.
• How the Web Contest Predicted the Real Thing.
• Top Four Essentials of eCampaigning. C.f. The Essentials of Online Advocacy Begin With Email (e.politics sez, you better f*cking believe it).
• Why I like the Google Video Player.
• Quantcast Helps The Media Planner. Improve your advertising plans with free site demographics.
• Clinton Going Down, While the Web Dreams of an Obama Win.
• Another political PowerPoint, this time Clinton’s. See Politico and Wired.
• New Google Service Makes Web Pages Social.
• How Defense Research Is Making Troops More Effective in Wartime.
• Air Force Colonel Wants to Build a Military Botnet. Or not.
• The indie-rock fall and rise of R.E.M..
• OMG! WARNING: Over the top, offensive humor! Note comment: “Godwin’s Law: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
• Obama’s online organization.
• Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars via online photos. Check out the size of those pictures!
• Republican Slogan Borrowed From Antidepressant. The jokes are too obvious to bother making.
• Concharto: Wikipedia for history/geography nerds. via GeoDog.
• The peak oil culture wars.
• Space porn! Virtual telescope brings the cosmos to your desktop.

– cpd

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