Quick Hits — January 26, 2009
Ginormous post-Inauguration catch-up edition — fruits of a month of random browsing, obsessive clicking and a ton of Google Alerts.
- Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages.
- Lots of talk about the new Whitehouse.gov: New White House website raises the bar for everyone, Thoughts on the new WhiteHouse.gov, White House Web FAIL?, Latency Issues? White House Site Is Gorgeous …. But Slow, and Code Warriors Debate Whitehouse.gov Robot Commands (unfortunately, no giant fighting robots involved).
- Ah, here they are! Coming to the Battlefield: Stone-Cold Robot Killers. How soul-less murder machines might lead to a Pax Americana.
- RNC race boosts technology. C.f. Karl Rove Signs Up For Twitter, Tells GOP To “Master New Media” About Six Months Too Late.
- After Inauguration, Obama Celebrates with His Network, and lefty bloggers whoop it up across town.
- Obama Announces Grass-Roots Lobby, part of his Permanent Grass-Roots Campaign.
- Governing And Legislating In Web 2.0. National Journal interviews former New York Times futurist Michael Rogers.
- Will He Bring Change.gov We Can Believe In?
- (Obama’s) ’08 Campaign Guru Focuses On Grass Roots.
- Obama stimulus package to include website for citizen oversight.
- Oldie but goodie: e-Hail To the Chief — Obama Won With Web’s Help. Now, How to Govern Using That Community?
- The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the White House?
- Barack Obama’s Online Fundraising Machine. Good overview piece.
- Change.org Unveils ‘Ideas For Change.’
- More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying. Note how an undercover agent’s use of the wrong email address could have blown her cover, and how a database’s pre-existing categories drove the designation of groups as “terrorist.” C.f. Report: U.S. Surveillance Society Running Rampant (I’d comment but this microphone keeps getting in the way).
- The Year of Living Gloomily: The recession is bad enough. A relentless news cycle is making it worse, plus (Another) Bogus Trend of the Week: a Plague of Shoplifters!
- So You Can’t Pick the Hits. Neither Can Anyone Else. NO ONE can predict the future — and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
- Online petition to keep Mike Griffin in charge of NASA. Which failed — it might have helped if he’d have quit yelling at Obama’s transition team.
- The Right’s online petition: keep Gitmo open!, via War Room.
- President-Elect Barack Obama Falls Victim to Twitter Hack, as Weak Password Brings ‘Happiness’ to (Obama, Fox) Twitter Hacker.
- How Amazon.com hoodwinks the press.
- My Top 10 Social Action Platforms of 2008, via Josh Levy.
- What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting .
- Don’t Get Caught Wearing Identical Inaugural Gowns (good thing mine was custom-made).
- Obama’s Online Community Expands, via CQ Politics.
- Congress Gets Down with YouTube.
- Guerrilla Tactics at Oil-Lease Auction. Note that an immediate online fundraising campaign started for the perpetrator.
- YouTube Clips Unveil Oakland Shooting. “In the still evolving YouTube era, videos don’t just spread, they [can] rally a community.”
- Conservative (blogs) up in arms over Browner’s socialist ties.
- Building an iTunes for Newspapers.
- Video: New 3-D Fly-Through of Supernova Remnant. Kewl.
- Guide: Using video effectively.
- Online Threat to Kill Obama Leads to Arrest. Oopsie!
- Joe the Plumber, “reporting” from Israel for a conservative website.
- New Paths to Power Emerge in Iraq: Cleric’s Ascent to Local Strongman Illustrates Shift Underway. Fascinating profile.
- Why the Mediterranean is the Achilles’ heel of the web.
- Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay? .
- At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool. Using YouTube for research, via A Loyal Reader (thanks, Dad!).
- D.C.’s High-Level Social Scene Now Mingles Black and White. Note that those of us in DC’s low-level social scene have been doing that for a long time.
- Making connections, gadget to gadget.
- Vietnamese Authorities Rein In the Country’s Vigorous Blogosphere. Jerks. C.f. Syria blocks personal blog of Human rights activist.
- For Israeli Blogger, Conflict Spurs Mixed Emotions.
- Israel Defense Force Invades the the Blogosphere.
- Why the Ideological Melting Pot Is Getting So Lumpy. Political polarization = personal branding?
- A Political Blogger’s Reading List.
- Ethical nonprofit marketing with social media. Now, doesn’t that just take all the fun out of it?
- Can You Nail an Email Pitch to A-List Bloggers?
- “Hell on Earth” — Joe Trippi’s using Twitter to draw attention to Zimbabwe.
- Edelman’s social media lessons from Obama’s campaign, plus Obama’s Guide to Social Media (and How to Crack it) and How Obama Did It — Lessons for Bloggers and Webmasters.
- Google Sees Continued Strength in Online Political Ad Spending.
- Micro-blogging on the rise. Politics and Twitter, an intro.
- Social Nets — A Fundraising Distraction?
- Patch-Through Call Services — Finally Ready for Prime Time?
- New media douchebags explained, via j_ro. Hmmmm, a few of these lines hit a little too close to home…
- FBI re-uses seized porn. Recycling is all the rage, baby!
- Terror, Anthrax, Explosives and More in Free, Downloadable ‘Counterterrorism Calendar.’
- Save Your Ass With Social Media.
- And finally, I’m in yr ofice, adminsterating yr youth media.
– cpd
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