Quick Hits — August 11, 2008
- Veep alert = cash call. Team Obama uses the Veepstakes to drive fundraising. C.f. Obama Plans Novel VP Announcement TXT. Update: Now he has online ads centering around it.
- Liberals Ask Justice to Probe McCain Bundler. MoveOn has a multi-front strategy, also Hits McCain No-Shows.
- Atlantic Scores Internal Clinton Campaign Emails.
- Stung By FISA, (blogger-led) Group to Drop Money Bomb.
- Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans. YouTube + Olympics broadcast-delay = citizen-publishing opportunity.
- Newspapers: “the 8-track cassette of news?” Via via Ivy Newman. See also How Newspapers Can Turn Problems Into Profit.
- Happy Birthday Macaca: The Best Political Videos of the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
- How Google Dominates Online Politics. C.f. The Latest Insight from Google.
- McCain’s Rewards Program for Online Commenters.
- McCain’s Paid Search Marketing Campaign Still A Mystery To “Experts”.
- Talking Online Politics With (Grassroots.com’s) Bill McIntyre. Via Susan Patterson.
- The Bivings Report’s Senate series: The Use of the Internet by 2008 Senate Campaigns, 5 Senate Campaign Websites That Could Use a Little Design Help and Top 5 Best Senate Campaign Website Designs.
- TheNextRight’s video series: Why Do TV Ads Suck So Much Compared to Web Video?, Web Video Didn’t Kill the TV Star and Web Videos Take Risks and TV Ads Are For Congressmen.
- What is being done to improve advocacy communications with Congress?
- Grrrrrly girls. “More evidence of a double-X revolution in the gaming industry: In the grand tradition of the gender, female gamers are organizing.”
- Interactivity and the Presidential Debates.
- Blog Nation and future of politics, online. Blogs and politics in the U.K.
- 6 experts debunk mobile marketing myths.
- MySpace Partners Up for the Debates.
- The disturbing truth about metrics.
- Civic leaders of tomorrow taking new paths to discourse. Damn kids + lawn = get off mine.
- Online campaign finance info reaches the local level.
- Do you need a Content Management System? I have one right here, low mileage, formerly owned by a little old lady, driven only to church on Sundays…
- The Earned Media Failure of the GOP.
- Yahoo to Allow Users To Skip Targeted Ads.
- What information do you need to quantify and understand the benefits of your organization’s social media strategy?
- Chertoff: I’m Listening to the Internet (Not in a Bad Way). Worth the click for the creepy pic.
- How to turn gas guzzlers into green machines. On cars and the future of civilization.
- Wonderwear to the Rescue! My friend Monica launches an online shop for her (all-recycled) clothing line.
– cpd
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