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Quick Hits — October 28, 2008

October 28th, 2008

• Would-be Obama assassins met online, of course.
• Popular Conservative Blog Backs Alaska Democrats.
• The Election That Has the Whole World Blogging.
• Tweet Your Voting Moment.
• Obama Campaign Streams Closing Argument Online.
• Sexy Robocall Flogs ‘Green Republican,’ Flouts Law. C.f. Forget robo-calls — Obama’s text messages are this campaign’s secret weapon.
• Obama Continues Advertising Dominance. Wonder where all that money came from? Oh right, these guys. C.f. DNC Will Tap Line of Credit — note that they did the same thing in 2006.
• RIP (blogger) Dean Barnett.
• McCain’s Warning About Voter Fraud Stokes a Fiery Campaign Even Further.
• Election ’08: What’s in a domain name. Many more sites focus on Obama. C.f. Can the Web predict the next president?
• Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Put Their Weight Behind Global Plan Against Online Speech Restriction.
• How Bad Are Electronic Voting Machines?
• Cross-posting for Advocacy.
• Innovative Health Advocacy: Strategies To Break Through The Noise.
• Google Reader Adds Attention Statistics.
• Sen. Stevens’ Conviction & ‘Tangled Up Tubes’.
• Imaginary murder, imaginary news. Death Comes to Second Life.
• Google Earth Comes to the iPhone.
• The Robot Proxy War: Bush’s man-hunting machines — and Obama’s. Make sure they don’t team up with the voting machines, or with that chick in Second Life.
• 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA is the Law That Saved the Web.
• The atlas of the real world. Change the map, change the story.
• Proto-humans mastered fire 790,000 years ago. A previous generation of world-altering technology.

– cpd

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