Quick Hits — July 5, 2009
Clearing the proverbial cache, of a few stories that have stuck on the list over the past few weeks.
- It Came from Wasilla. Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin — w/o it, her July 3rd press conference is incomprehensible (with it, her press conference is slightly less incomprehensible).
- Obama’s “Online Townhall” Forum: Transparency Theater?
- Iran Reverberates for Young Arabs Online C.f. A collection of astonishing photos from Iran, and “We honour and thank the people of Iran and especially the hackers. Baseej have guns we have brains.”
- Grass-Roots Groups Gear Up For Health Debate.
- Facebook Taps Privacy Hawk as Lobbyist.
- Gov Geeks a Hit in New York.
- The Future of Email Marketing? Twitter. Which sparked the creation of a Twitter petition tool. Epol sez, call us when Twitter starts raising money year after year for tens of thousands of candidates and organizations, like email does.
- A Look at the GOP’s Digital Future.
- Online advocacy or intimidation? Do we get to vote?
- Meghan McCain vs Kos, via Twitter.
- The triumph of the uncelebrity. Starts good, gets even better.
- A New Way to Spread the Word . Hint: involves the Interweb.
- Tech Groups Find New Networking Territory. Hint: involves cocktails.
- Destroying an online claim that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s Dreams From My Father. Turns out, by the “evidence,” the 1967 Illinois Commission on Automation and Technological Progress also wrote Obama’s Dreams From My Father, among many other “authors.”
- House to Put Office Spending Online.
- The Email Address Most Likely To Be Snooped On? – Labour in crisis: the Hotmail conspiracy.
- Orphaned Tweets: When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.
- Fulfilling a Campaign Promise: Better Access to Useless Junk.
- Conservative writer apologizes for outing anonymous blogger.
- 360i Publishes Social Marketing Playbook, via Brandi Horton.
- The Twitter Opposition: Republican politicians make the most interesting Twitterers. C.f. Sen. Grassley’s Twitter Broadside At Obama.
- The minister of Twitter: India’s Shashi Tharoor shows juvenile American politicians how micro-blogging should be done..
- On viral culture.
- Left, right face off over Von Brunn. C.f. Fox’s Smith unloads on “frightening” e-mailers.
- ‘Pregnant’ blogger’s hoax angers readers, via Burt Edwards.
- Economists Focused on Theory Slighted Reality. On the dangers of ignoring actual history.
- A Recession in Dog Years: The United States is experiencing what Japan did in the 1990s, but seven times faster.
- Can I interest you in a planet shaped like a football?
- Bombs, Man-Apes, and Ancient Cities: A history of science publishing in images from the archives of Nature magazine.
- Solar ghosts may haunt Earth’s radioactive atoms .
- Google’s Byline Search a Boon to PR.
- Radical Roots of the Little Black Dress. My friend Dee’s favorite line from a time I escorted her on a shopping trip: “I’m looking for something in a little black dress…and so’s my friend.”
– cpd
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