Quick Hits — June 9, 2008
The End of the Beginning!
- Mike Allen: “‘Thank you, Senator Clinton,’ says the home page of BarackObama.com, which harvests e-mail and text addresses with a form inviting: ‘Take a minute to thank her for her hard work and for supporting this campaign.’” (The Caucus has a screenshot). C.f. By Text, E-Mail and Blog, Obama Thanks Clinton, Primary Campaign ’08 Goes Out in a Digital Flurry, a look at Hillary’s site on The Day and her drop-out announcement email. But wait! Angry Clinton Supporters Start Rallying for McCain Online.
- Update: An Obama Delegate’s Road to Politics Began With an Online Donation.
- Update: Obama quote: “What I didn’t anticipate was how effectively we could use the Internet to harness that grassroots base, both on the financial side and the organizing side.” Via PoliticsOnline.
- Update: ACU blows it on threat of CPAC facebook group legal action.
- Update: Media Death March: The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper.
- Obama, Propelled by the Net, Wins Democratic Nomination. C.f. Mike Cornfield: No Internet, No Obama.
- McCain Googles for Veep.
- Obama and the Holocaust. Also, The Right Quarrels Over MyBarackObama.com. Alert: social media backlash. C.f. (in the second article) the section on the citizen journalist who caught Obama’s most “bitter” of campaign moments.
- The Clinton Campaign and the Media. The Times would like to know what you think about its coverage.
- Oh, the Changing Blogosphere.
- Frist Email: “Democrats win landslide victory”.
- NYTimes to open content via API.
- Will Linkbait Ruin the Internet? Note the fake story about the kid who stole his dad’s credit card so he could pay the hookers.
- Planning an Online Viral Marketing Campaign.
- Step-by-step guidelines for proper online ad buys, from the Internet Advertising Bureau.
- Building a (Fundraising) Base with Pledges.
- I’m Not a Superdelegate, But I Play One on the Internet. Suggested by my former NET colleague Henry Coppola, who’s currently playing a jobseeker.
- Interactive Billboards?
- Phoenix lander is on Twitter.
- Abstinence campaign begins with email.
- YouTube causes Obama to quit his church.
- Using Facebook to organize your protest. Your booze-fueled Tube protest, that is.
- Email Marketing for MySpace Artists.
- Up Next: The Right. The Next Right makes The Post.
- For Superdelegates, ‘Huge Relief’ at End of Primary Season. They’ve been hounded via phone, email, telegram, carrier pigeon, smoke signal, waterboarding…
- Sudden Disconnect Over Social Networking Deal. Via Hank Dearden.
- Lessons and Ideas to Replicate from Campaign ’08.
- Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends ‘Left Behind’.
- New Blogging Network Editor Hopes To Transform Social Networking To Social Action. Josh Levy, celebrity blogger.
- Republicans Use Democrats to Attack Obama.
- The general election map. C.f. other electoral college vote maps via PoliticalWire.
- Obama Money Machine Grows.
- Do Journalists Care About Blogs?
- The Internet Comes to Maine.
- Let’s Just Admit Slatecard is the Republican ActBlue.
- Newspapers Mull Future amid Digital Media Boom.
- ‘Greenest’ Adults Are Also Influencers, Most Tech-Savvy.
- RNC Facebook Group Membership Drive Inadvertently Propels DNC Facebook Group Membership.
- Internet, Hotlines Help Earthquake Survivors Find Relatives.
- Billionaire Entrepreneur Slipped Drugs To Tech Execs, Feds Allege. Once again, we’re going to the wrong parties.
- At the Tip of Iran’s Spear. Imagining the strategic calculations of the head of the Quds Force.
- Tupac Backs Barack! A political endorsement from beyond the grave…Biggie must be a McCain man.
- The strange allure of making your own fonts. Amateur typography: tragic obsession or something truly dangerous?
- News headlines from an alternate universe. Where do we sign up? Suggested by my old Austin buddy Eric Cifreo.
– cpd
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