Quick Hits — July 18, 2008
Monster mid-summer catch-up edition, straight from Austin, Texas.
- Update: Microtargeting: Myth vs. Fact?
- Update: Questions About McCain’s Tech Savvy Worry Bloggers on the Right.
- Update: Should Government Employees Blog?
- Vocus Webinar Explores Bridging the Gap between PR and Media. Hey, I think we know that guy!
- Science vs. Conservapedia: Science wins. Via How the World Works.
- RightOnline v Netroots Nation.
- McCain Campaign Uses Web Spider to Sting Obama. A flip, a flop, or an edit?
- The Republican National Committee (RNC) plans to sue CafePress for permitting vendors to sell unlicensed Republican merchandise. C.f. Wired’s coverage.
- House Leadership Moves to Silence Twittering Members. C.f. Let Our Congress Tweet and Is the House going to limit the free speech of its own members?
- McCain Says He’s Learning How To Use the Internet. C.f. John McCain explores the interweb.
- Insider’s Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits. Frogloop chats with a nonprofit/activism specialist from YouTube, suggested by reader Karen Graham.
- Social Networking Stats: Facebook and LinkedIn Surging in US. Via Sarah Stirland.
- Harbinger of doom — or economic opportunity? “We are witnessing a vast, globally distributed increase in the number of people with access to the means to consume petroleum-based resources.”
- Campaign media could be so much more exciting. e.politics sez, more nudity!
- Uploading the War: A Pulitzer Problem? The continuing power of video from a war zone.
- How Revolutionary is Obama’s Anti-FISA Group? C.f. A Political Agitator Finds a Double-Edged Weapon.
- Clinton wields powerful e-mail list.
- The Cold Calls Behind Those Personal Letters to Congress.
- Helms was ahead of campaign curve.
- In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many. A Joe Flood suggestion.
- 8 video (advertising) myths debunked.
- Pakistan Marble Helps Taliban Stay in Business.
- Associated Press adapts to changing times — but in the right way?
- Flip-Flop Flap. On the ideological purism of bloggers.
- Bloggers v. editorial writers.
- Flickr groups for the Republican and Democratic conventions, via Steve Rhodes.
- The weird science of stock photography. Everywhere Girl as metaphor — visual AND societal (dude, whoa).
- How Russia’s baby-boosting policies are hurting the population. In this case, “hurt” isn’t a metaphor.
- The latest from JibJab, suggested by Emily Douce.
- How Obama is betting on vast, corporate-style voter outreach to win the White House.
- A survey of Obama in pencil, ink and paint shows artists are struggling to get the brother right.
- Is Obama Investing Massively in Field Organizing?
- The GOP, Online Politics, and Internet Regulation.
- On the profit potential of political blogs.
- Election portal watch: PBS launches Vote 2008.
- Search marketing is good for brands, says the company that stands to profit most from it.
- Parties Issue Dueling Iraq War Policy Videos Online.
- On the cheapening of outrage. “Outrage is supposed to be extreme anger about an extreme and dignity-damaging insult. It has instead become the quotidian autonomic emotional register of most species of political actors, including partisans, campaign operatives and pundits.” Via Salon.
- Thoughts on RNC Platform Website. C.f. GOP Asks Net For Advice, Paulites Answer the Call … and Answer, and Answer and Collaborative (and Polite) Platform Crafting.
- Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits.
- United, Delta, American, Southwest…the Airlines Move in on Moveon.
- When The Man is One of Us. Jesse’s nuts — and so is everyone else.
– cpd
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