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Quick Hits — December 25, 2008

December 25th, 2008

Merry Christmas! The turkey’s still in the oven, but these links are ready to serve.

• Ari Melber: Obama for America 2.0?.
• Plane Crash Kills GOP Internet Consultant.
• A cell-phone modification for on-the-spot disease detection and monitoring, via @mobileactive.
• Obama, Emails, and Blagojevich.
• Future campaigns, take notice: Obama Spent Less than 50% on TV Ads.
• Obama Count(ed) on Text Messages to Drive Turnout of Youth, Blacks.
• Mobile Marketing in ’08: iPhone Was the Story.
• Social Media and the Federal Government: Perceived and Real Barriers and Potential Solutions.
• Center for American Progress “damage” control gone wrong: The Problem with Individual Disclaimers on Blog Posts, and Putting a CAP on Yglesias.
• GOP Leader John Boehner Solicits Stimulus-Skeptical Economists Over the Web.
• An interactive map of government bailouts, via @OpenCongress.
• The revolutionary potential of small-donor democracy, via @DavidAll.
• Todd Zeigler reviews Change.gov’s “Open For Questions:” “What we have here is very focused participatory democracy.”
• Bureaucrats for Change: Why Obama’s Inherited Web Team Gets It.
• The Obama Campaign’s Levels of Engagement. Hmmmmmm, sounds familiar…
• What We (Republicans) Can Learn From Howard Dean.
• YouTube Embeds — Invasion of the Search Boxes.
• Interest Groups, Bloggers Remind Obama They’re Watching.
• How and Where to Submit Online Press Releases for Maximum Search Engine Optimization Benefit, via Leslie Bradshaw.
• Micro Fundraising on Twitter: Red Kettle Campaign, Wellwishes cracks $2,000 mark. C.f. A Glimpse at the Future of Twitter Fundraising.
• A Global Online Community Is Created to Save Tigers.
• MySpace v. Facebook Advertising Showdown. Which Platform Is Better?
• Cutting through the noise on Capitol Hill.
• Don’t create fundraising that you like. Target your actual audience instead.
• HOW TO: Create Online Video That Works.
• Study: Almost 10% On Social Networks Via Mobile.
• The Sorry State of Blog Search Engines.
• Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner Wants to Tweet.
• Going from a Print Newsletter to Email: What to Leave Behind.
• Your Volunteers Make, Or Break, Web 2.0 Outreach — But You Have To Help Them Do It Right. C.f. Using Facebook for Your Nonprofit.
• Twitter Isn’t the Point — it’s the connection that matters.
• Why I’m Qwitting You On Twitter (I’m not the only one purging after a binge).
• Cool Flash Videos That Explain Social Media.
• New Insight Into Hill Cyber Hacking.
• Capitol Hill’s Favorite Words Of ’08.
• YouTube Unveils Unique View Counts. Now You Can Tell If Your Mom Is Your Only Fan.
• Pulling Off Houdini’s Trick — Obama’s election-day tracking system didn’t work entirely as planned.
• Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror Video.
• Inside Europe’s strangest ‘theme park’: A secret underground base offers a terrifyingly realistic reminder of Soviet occupation, via @igeldard.
• Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions.
• Barney Cam Returns. White House goes to the dogs again, wacka wacka wacka!
• Adult FriendFinder Files To Go Public. When all else fails, invest in sin.

– cpd