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Quick Hits — July 24, 2008

July 24th, 2008

• Update: The Commentocracy rises online.
• Road Trip! Young Republicans Blog and Twitter Their Way Across the U.S.
• The internet changes a small town in North Carolina. Multiply by an entire planet.
• McCain’s Web Site Traffic Surges, But Obama Still Leads Online.
• Netroots Nation in quotes.
• New Christian PAC Supports Obama. But don’t they know he’s Muslim? (legal notice: a joke)
• Marketing and Monetizing Your Progressive Blog. Netroots Nation panel slides.
• Video as a Campaign Tool.
• Which ad would you click through? Comparing presidential contextual ads.
• A Major Reason Why The Netroots Is Kicking Our B***. A conservative’s lament.
• Anti-Robocall Crusader Pushes For a Crackdown on Political Phone Droids.
• Pickens Online Community Averaging 10% Daily Growth. Plus, he plans to spend $58 million to advertise his proposal. C.f. T. Boone Pickens Raises Marketing Flag to Promote Wind Power.
• Facebook finally gets its facelift. C.f. The Friendfeedization Of Facebook.
• Culberson eTownhall. Free the Twitter Two!
• Mobile Tech Connects Young People to Politics.
• Liberal Bloggers Brace for Victory.
• Communicating with Congress: Recommendations for Improving the Democratic Dialogue. A proposal from the Congressional Management Foundation, via Oliver McColl.
• Submit a pro-Obama slogan, win an iPhone.
• Why aren’t women going wild for video?. Apparently, a different topic than women going wild ON video
• Don’t Fear (the) Twitter.
• Minimize List Churn by Reducing Unsubscribes.
• Online Research Traps That Can Derail Your Marketing Strategy.
• The secret to paid search: treat it like a media buy.
• We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It. Distributed collective action — to generate a product I’d buy in a second.
• Michelle Malkin: “Conservatives Aren’t Behind Online” — Yeah. Right.
• Hey Republicans, Stop Being Pundits; Start Being Activists.
• Recapping Netroots Nation and RightOnline.
• GOP ‘Caving’ on Trademark Lawsuit Threats.
• Among Mobile Marketing Techniques, Text Messaging Most Often Responded to.
• Obamamania in full flight before Europe tour. Note the end — a vote for Obama, even in a poll, can be a guilt-soother that gives someone an excuse not to do anything more substantive. Via Chris Cosart.
• Um, Soren, I respect you but I can’t really buy your premise that a tied Michigan poll in mid-July is a harbinger of a McCain victory. Try a more realistic take.
• Obama Web site removes ‘surge’ from Iraq problem. Self-editing is so convenient. Via Slate.
• Right Click: The GOP’s Cyrus Krohn Has His Sites Set On Updating the Party’s Internet Connection.
• Optimizing your website for social marketing outreach.
• McCain’s Awakening — blogs propel notice of McCain gaffe.
• Interview: Driving towards the 100-mpg car. On the race for the automotive X Prize.
• The Netroots Grow Up.
• From online politics to online parenting.
• Ron Paul Switches to Bigger Arena for counter(?)-event to RNC.
• Nevada GOP Cancels Convention, Opts for Conference Call.
• The Candidates, Comically Drawn. Want McCain and Obama comic book bios? Got you covered.
• The MSM? It’s Now ‘Traditional’.
• On the virtues of calm assertiveness.
• An obit worth your time. A bad-ass chick.
• Earth as an alien would see it. Watch the video, and wait for the Moon — it’s worth it.
• To my friend Dan: Ask and ye shall receive.

– cpd

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