Quick Hits — September 1, 2009
Late-summer links, fresh off the grill.
- Update: Online politics leads to offline activism. In other news, the internet can be used to raise money! And promote issues! Plus, water is wet! Okay, okay, go straight to the source for the full story, which is that the demographics of online politics mirror those of real-world politics in the U.S.
- Update: Bloggers against Journalists, yet again: the strange case of Klein v Greenwald (be sure to check out this genius reader comment on Klein’s piece).
- Bloggers, Emailers pounce on Bob McDonnell in Virginia.
- Hutchison’s Search Engine Sneak. In Texas, politics remains a contact sport — even online.
- Does Florida’s Google Ad Flap Really Matter?
- US Dems fill inboxes with 419 scams, via Jon Henke. Better lock down that email port, kids.
- Bloggers Raise Funds For Public Option
- ActBlue hits $100 million in donations, while Fundraising Site ActBlue Is Top-Spending PAC
- Democrats unveil “GOP Translation Machine”, via tPrez.
- White House Takes New Media Missteps. C.f. White House Email Program Stumbles, and Conservatives Get in Their Kicks.
- Live by the Facebook, Die by the Facebook: New Ad Targets Palin’s Friends. C.f. Palin’s Facebook Megaphone: Big and Getting Bigger.
- Approval by a Blogger May Please a Sponsor.
- Women Who Tech.
- TV Ads vs. Social Media.
- Blue State Digital Takes Over the World.
- Politweecs.
- 3121: The Social Network that’s Just For Congress.
- Cap And Trade Used To Build E-Mail Lists.
- The Social Media Revolution.
- 5 Under-The-Radar Marketing Bloggers You Should Read.
- Why online protests fail IRL.
- Five Tips to Ramp Up Your Nonprofit’s Fan Pages.
- Best Practices for Mass Emailing.
- Why there will never be an Obama in Europe? (Take with a sizable grain of salt.)
- Republican New Media Caucus Sets Up Shop. C.f.
Are Congressional “New Media” Clubs Missing the Point? - Targeting Barack Obama via email — to stop him picking on video games.
- Blogging as Political Action.
- 9 YouTube Features You May Not Know About, plus How to Get More Views for Your Video.
- Transparency Site Lets Idahoans Track State Spending.
- The Message Is the Medium: Learning from Obama’s Ubiquity.
- Macaca Day 2009: From George Allen to Claire McCaskill, Video Trackers to Town Haters.
- ACORN And Conservative Paranoia . C.f. Racism Is the Prime Cause for Debunked Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theory (via Sarah Conner), In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage, and Lincoln’s Prophecy for the GOP.
- Birthers of a Nation: How the Obama “Birth Certificate” Issue is Playing Online.
- It’ll take a lot more than the internet to change China, via Sara Lai Stirland.
- Astroturf: Exposing the Fake Grassroots. Nice widget! C.f. Astroturf Doesn’t Have Roots, But Do Protests?
- The “future” of news will be social, ultra local.
- Seattle Times sez, bloggers need to watch what they say, via Burt Edwards.
- Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter, via David All. But wait, Dems strike back!
- Tapping the Twitterverse (in California).
- What the Business Sector Can Learn from Nonprofits.
- The Trouble with Slacktivism.
- Arianna Huffington Isn’t Bullish On Paid Content.
- 1in10: A case study in social media campaigning from Amnesty UK.
- Gamal Mubarak Wants to be Your Facebook Friend, via Nisha Chittal.
- Bloggers v Mainstream Media, Round 1362.
- Controllers bid farewell to long-lived Ulysses probe.
- The biologist who broke the Berlin Wall.
- Physics “humor.”
– cpd
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