Quick Hits — March 3, 2009
- The Daily Show takes on Twitter, plus Tired of Twitter? You ain’t alone and Congress on Twitter: Getting Between the 435 and the 140. Also note a couple of examples of when Congressmembers should think before they Tweet. If you haven’t run screaming yet, here are 10 tools for breaking into Twitter, perfect for The GOP, Atwitter About the Digital Possibilities
- Nuclear and Environment (Online) Ads Aimed to Influence Stimulus Votes — scroll all the way down for a nice surprise. C.f. Search For ‘Stimulus,’ Get A Petition and Dems criticized Republicans via robocall — for “opposing tax cuts.”
- How Many Web Gurus Did It Take to Elect Obama? C.f. Is this man the future of politics? An interview with Obama campaign’s Thomas Gensemer.
- Web-Savvy Obama Team Hits Unexpected Bumps C.f. Setting the Record Straight on Obama’s New Media Team.
- (Online) Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers. Random prediction: the hotel hosting the Conservative Political Action Conference saw a big jump in pay-per-view porn rentals.
- Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt vs. Crikey: Upscaling the blog wars or big yawn? No earthly idea what they’re talking about, but it sounds interesting.
- Moms Changing Society: Breastfeeding in Public & On Facebook.
- Obama, Reaching Outside the Bubble. Fascinating glimpse of a changed life. More important: How will Obama’s presidency change hip-hop?
- A People-Powered Plum: Can Geoghegan Make It? Disclosure: I went to a Geoghegan fundraiser a couple of weeks ago.
- Lobbyist kicked off of OMB press conference call.
- Thou Shalt Not Blog: Obama’s OLC nominee discovers the perils of “blogging, advocating, and speeching.”
- Email campaign targets a George Will column skeptical of global warming.
- Under Weight of Its Mistakes, Newspaper Industry Staggers, but Bloggers Can’t Fill the Gap Left by Shrinking Press Corps.
- Your Cell and Your Berry: Tools of the Enemy.
- CQ Makes Sweet Friendship to Political Wire .
- How can Facebook be worth $15 billion?
- Steele’s First Fundraising Letter: Help Me “Clean House.”
- Quick n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy.
- 10 Best Web Content Best Practices.
- On the Web, Gay Bloggers’ Voices Rise in Chorus of Growing Influence.
- Jurassic Web: The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today.
- Meghan McCain on Why Republicans Don’t Get the Internet.
- Email is Still King, at least as far as content-sharing goes, via Susan Finkelpearl.
- When should you put your print content online?
- Trendsetters’ toolbox: A guide to innovating (online) in 2009.
- Breaking down barriers to Facebook organizing.
- Social Media Principle #10 — Findability is Power.
- No, actually, I don’t “need to get on Facebook,” via Hank Dearden.
- Online Consumers Most Receptive to Ads in Evening. My guess why: it’s the booze.
- 5 ways to mix art and science in ad targeting.
- TV viewership at an all-time high.
- An Overview of McKinsey’s ‘Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work.’
- The Real Roland Burris Please Stand Up.
- Facebook Diplomacy: Washington wants to use the Web 2.0 to win hearts and minds. Trouble is, the tyrants got there first.
- Nailing Down the Obama Web Video Doctrine.
- Website to dish the dirt on foods.
- Chinese Officials’ Africa Jaunt Exposed by “Netizen” Video.
- For Drudge, existence of snow still big news.
- Cassini maps global pattern of Titan’s dunes — instead of sand, grains of frozen hydrocarbons on Saturn’s largest moon.
- The future: Where you and I will spend the rest of our lives.
– cpd
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