Quick Hits — October 1, 2009
- Online Conspiracy Theorists Latch Onto Census GPS Units.
- Tracking Lobbyists’ Real Influence.
- Pawlenty Plants a Flag on Planet Internet, as he Locks Up Top GOP Talent.
- MoveOn.org Hits a Health Care Nerve, while Apple Blocks Health Care Advocacy App.
- The High Cost of White House Outreach.
- Cutting Congressional Staff = Huge Corporate Victory.
- Strategic Vision Polls Exhibit Unusual Patterns, Possibly Indicating Fraud.
- DSCC Chair Proclaims Hope in Texas Senate Race with Bill White.
- Drudge Has Lost His Touch: Technology, the competition, and the times have passed him by. Stay tuned.
- Rising Rightroots and Declining Netroots Now at Parity (or Better). Maybe.
- Joe Rospars on the Obama campaign and social media.
- Will clicking on all the ads help your favorite Web site? C.f. Ads are the new online tip jar (yes, this is a hint).
- Targeted Facebook Ads to Saturate Hill Space (on immigration). C.f. Revisiting Facebook for Online Advertising.
- Redistricting: A Preview.
- Interlaced: Email and Social Networks.
- Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising: Complacency, Absence of Big Donors Cited.
- How Google Wave could transform journalism. C.f. HOW TO: Get Started with Google Wave.
- Report: Bing In Decline.
- Has Second Life Cut Its Mullet?
- Among the new features in CNN iPhone app: a price, via Margot Friedman.
- Secret Service Probing Facebook Poll on Obama. C.f. It’s Not Facebook, It’s the People Who Use Facebook.
- Republican base still wild about Sarah Palin.
- The dangers of social spam.
- 7 vital questions to ask your web designer.
- Blogger Profiles for Effective Pitching (free guide).
- Stinking It Up: Lessons From a PR Failure, via Shaun Dakin.
- Contest: Become a Washington Post pundit.
- A Start-Up’s Tale, Tweet by Tweet.
- Blogtalk: Palin, Death and the Olympics. C.f. Afghanistan and a Charge of Racism Lead the Blogs.
- Liberal Groups Raise Funds Off Baucus, Snowe Votes.
- RNC Chairman Compares Pro-Obama Song to Communist Propaganda.
- Joe Wilson turns GOP fundraising star (as in, he’s featured in an NRSCC mass email).
- Cyberbullying Bill Gets Chilly Reception.
- How LIVESTRONG Uses Social Media To Animate Its Community.
- TX-Gov: Perry Campaign’s Claims That Website Was Hacked Don’t Add Up, plus TX-Gov: The Perry Website “Political Sabotage” Explanations Don’t Match Timeline.
- U.K. Online Ad Spend Exceeded T.V. in First Half, Says IAB.
- Survey Shows Engaged Americans Talk Online, and Want To Know More.
- Gear Up For Giving: Social Media Tutorial Series for Nonprofits.
- Designing for Contagiousness.
- Slacktivism and the division of labor.
- Five Tips to Strengthen the Design of your Nonprofit’s Website.
- The Art of Getting ReTweeted.
- Gov 2.0 Summit videos.
- Reflections on Idealware’s Facebook Launch.
- NonProfit Website Design: Examples and Best Practices, via The Agitator.
- HOW TO: Create Videos for Your Nonprofit Without a Video Camera, a Budget of $0, and Little-to-No Tech Skills.
- The State of Online Fundraising, plus Five Things Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Web 2.0 Donors and Online Donors: Why They Leave and How to Win Them Back.
- Raise Money on Facebook: Four Strategies You Need to Know About.
- Recovery.gov Launches (Again).
- Can Petition Tweets Change the World? An act.ly Quarterly Report meets MobsterWorld is spam!
- New Battlefield, Old Guard.
- Why 140 Characters Works, via TechRepublican.
- Why Twitter is not like Facebook, via Kerri Karvetski.
- Patrick Swayze: A Reminder That All News Is Going Social.
- Naked Female Zombies Running in Slow Motion: The subtle nuances of Zombieland. C.f. Fast vs. Slow Zombies.
- Why missile defense isn’t dead.
- Rolling out a Soyuz. Brute-force engineering at its finest (the train is a nice touch).
- Wanted: Puppy and Kitty Videos for Good.
- Turtle bridges: saving lives every day in New York.
– cpd
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