Quick Hits — August 26, 2008
In which we look through the results of a couple of weeks’ worth of email discussions, Google Alerts and suggestions from friends and readers, plus some random browsing.
- Update: Blogger + NokiaN95 + Qik = New, Critical Journalism? Or, More of the Same?
- Update: Online dirty tricks may mar U.S. elections, via Shaun Dakin.
- Update: Is the Devonian Chattanooga Shale Really a Volcanic Ash-Fall Deposit? Dissecting and demolishing a piece of creation “science,” via a loyal reader (thanks Dad!).
- Update: Political Coverage That’s All a-Twitter.
- New DNC Ads for Obama Turn Up in Red Light District Online. Nice! See the actual banners at Ad of the Day.
- Rednecks for Obama? My people! And now we know who those Obama ads are trolling for…
- Democratic Convention: Twitterers Gush Over Michelle Obama. C.f. Watch Me! Watch Me! at the DNC.
- Weak Web Promotion Surrounding Dem and GOP Conventions. Note quotes from The Good Doktor Rosenblatt and tPrez’s Micah Sifry.
- Put the conventions in context with a little essential reading (don’t miss Mencken).
- Who’s the Biggest Hypocrite on the 527 Block? Apparently, MoveOn.org.
- Obama’s Text: Message Received, With a Few Garbles. C.f. The Obama Txt: Lessons for Campaigners and Subtext, in which Chris Beam maybe reads a little too much into the timing.
- From YouTube to Text Messaging, Candidate’s Team Connects to Voters. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check Jose Antonio Vargas’s look at Obama’s web staff.
- 82 Days and Counting. Why campaigns feel like they never have enough time.
- GOP Video Site Targets Obama, Using Democrats’ Words.
- CNN Producer Pitched ‘Video Strategy’ to Obama Campaign, Got Job. Newsbusters sees librul media conspiracy.
- Nonprofit Distributes File Sharing Propaganda to 50,000 U.S. Students. Now in handy graphic novel form!
- Social Media and the Newton Election. Local is where it’s at, baby. C.f. Local sheriff takes on bloggers, finds himself outgunned, loses election.
- Online the Party is Over (if you’re Welsh). C.f. How tech-savvy is your MP?
- The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics.
- How I Almost Lost my Domain. Via Ha-Hoa Hamano. C.f. Who owns that domain? and United Airlines pilots attack United CEO Glenn Tilton with his own domain name.
- How “Janet” Fooled the Twittersphere [into thinking] She’s the Voice of Exxon Mobil.
- Before the Gunfire, Cyberattacks in Georgia. Via Mark Stephenson.
- Re-Inventing the Letter to the Editor.
- 4 websites that failed.
- Email’s hidden superpower. C.f. Peter Horan on email’s role in the future of advertising.
- Quote of the week: “My normal working practice if something doesn’t work is to add more Lego stormtroopers.” Lego Tableaus Re-Create Classic Photos.
- Great moments in advertising. Hey kids, engineering is better than sex! Really! Via Brad Terrell.
- Wishing you a belated Happy 2nd Macaca Day!!!!.
- Weird globalization moment of the week: Czech Bluegrass.
- “Cool project, what CMS did you guys use?”
- Beyond YouTube, Video Puts Users at the Center of the Campaign.
- Political Landscape 2008 — nice use of Flash to present layered information.
- Teen texts way to a spot in national championship. Via Danielle Kriz.
- Barackbook.com reviewed.
- Polihood: New political community site. Via Selena Shilad.
- Oh, Go On. A #dontgo reference, get it?
- Google Tests Ads Across YouTube Mobile.
- DSCC Road to Victory. Via Riché Zamor.
- 7 ways SEO consultants rip off their clients.
- Ten Commandments of Twitter. Via Deborah Elizabeth Finn.
- Online game Second Life hasn’t gotten a first one during this presidential campaign. C.f. One-Hour Abortion Clinic Opens In Second Life Mall. Oh dear.
- Protesters Evade Censors in Blogging Olympics Dark Side.
- Use of technology in the 2008 Obama-McCain contest.
- “Blogwars” at the Internet Advocacy Roundtable.
- Egocentric vs. Object Centric Networks: I Think I Know the Problem With Ning. Via Holly Ross.
- The X Factor: The sex factor. Sure it’s a marketing column, but check out the conjunction of the author photo and the title.
- Contribute something to the One Web Day time capsule.
- McCain “invented the Federal do not call registry”?
- How Google Dominates Online Politics, Part 2. The great equalizer.
- 6 Lessons We Can Learn From Barack Obama’s Online Marketing Strategy. Via Kevin Gottesman.
- ChangeBlogging: Let the Meme Begin.
- Is Something Rotten at Apple?
- A summation of the current state of political news on cable television.
- And remember kids, it’s all fun and games until we go a joke too far: HSUS has created a MySpace page for a baby harp seal — wanna see if he’s up for going clubbing later?
– cpd
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