e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics

Quick Hits — December 22, 2009

December 22nd, 2009

Clearing a cache very full of stories — we’ll catch up with the online advocacy blogs next time around.

• Conservative blogger wishes death on Bobby Byrd, joins Sen. Coburn in keeping it classy.
• Repubs, Dems scrub YouTube of online ads about party-switching Congressmember.
• MoveOn comes out against Senate deal, while the Obama mega-list is tapped to help push health care across finish line.
• When bloggers attack: Jane Hamsher has some choice words for Hadassah Leiberman, or, The anti-feminist attack on Hadassah Lieberman. C.f. MoveOn raises $1M from Lieberman ad.
• SkyGrabber: the $26 software used by insurgents to hack into US drones.
• Why I Parted Ways with the Right. A conservative blogger bails.
• Al Gore, the Internet and the Future of American Politics.
• China Imposes New Internet Controls. This is starting to sound like a rerun. C.f. The Battle for Press Freedom Moves Online.
• Italians organizing online against Berlusconi. What to do when the other guy owns the TV coverage, quite literally.
• Twitter-organized snowball fight + short-fused cop = bad scene on U Street..
• Organizing for Socialism. A conservative looks at OFA and MyBarackObama.com.
• Charities Cry Foul on Chase Facebook Charitable Giving Contest.
• As Obama’s Poll Numbers Fall, Criticism of Multitasking Rises. Terrible headline, but an interesting take on an internet effect.
• In Animated Videos, News and Guesswork Mix. No footage? Fake it!
• Internet Threat Desk at Homeland Security.
• Leveraging the Internet to Target Voters in 2010.
• 10 tactics that will dominate digital in 2010.
• Settlement reached in suit over missing White House e-mails.
• With The Rise of Social Media, No Privacy for Tiger Woods. C.f. Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar and Love Is Fleeting. A Text Message Is Forever.
• Terrorist recruiters leverage the Web.
• The White House Takes On Politico.
• (UK) Blogger profile — Bryony King.
• Please Tweet This Afternoon on ABC. Twitter + TV news = new advocacy target.
• Even the soybean farmers are into online advocacy.
• Introducing the Capitol Hill Tweet Watch Report.
• Jordanian Queen calls on online world to unite on behalf of 75 million out-of-school children.
• Zero For Thirty-One: Lessons From the Loss in Maine.
• Most Googled Senators. C.f. Political Google.
• AOL’s Latest Dumb Business Plan: Write stories based on search terms, mimic universe’s worst news site.
• Arlington (TN) mayor fires at Obama online: Tags president as a Muslim on Facebook. Best part: “A Charlie Brown Christmas” figures heavily in his reasoning.
• Can Anyone Stop Facebook? Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t…. C.f. Mapping Facebook’s Recent Global Growth Versus Rivals.
• The Twitter Holdouts: Why is more than half of Congress still not on Twitter?. Lack of filibuster option, no doubt.
• No Pick-Up In Twitter’s U.S. Traffic In November. Actually, traffic looks flat since June.
• More Sarah Palin//Facebook fun, plus Birthers.
• New York State marriage debate produces a YouTube star. C.f. Online Advocacy Masterclass: Sen Diane Savino on the NY Senate Floor.
• Join a Facebook Group and Save the World! Maybe.
• The Future of Mobile is Local — Look at Yelp.
• Bob McDonnell’s Online Advertising.
• Why Twitter is the Most Popular Word of 2009.
• The new leadership style of enterprise 2.0.
• Democracy is Online. Blast from the past! A Steven Clift paper from 1998.
• With Lure of Cash, M.I.T. Group Builds a Balloon-Finding Team to Take Pentagon Prize . C.f. DARPA Challenge Competitors Already Mobilizing Social Networks.
• You’ll buy more from web ads that know how you think .
• Why kids self-destruct with cell phones and online.
• How to Kill a Great Idea. Why Friendster failed.
• The Circular Logic of the Universe. Dude, whoa.
• Why Does Google Search Love Examiner.com?
• Washington Post Story Lab blog: A story comes to life.
• Geeking out over the Internet, e.politics, and web television.
• Supreme Court Takes Texting Case.
• How To Tell Your VoteBuilders From Your MyBOs, Your Catalists From Your VANs. Oldie but goodie.
• Shocking news: The world is stable!
• 5 Strategies for Online Donations and Online Advocacy.
• 10 Top Tips for Social Media Advocacy.
• Governor O’Malley talks jobs at online town hall.
• Powering a Green Planet: Sustainable Energy, Made Interactive. Cool way to show info, and see also this poll.
• NASA Uses Algae to Turn Sewage Into Fuel. Yum.
• Films of the decade: “Children of Men”.
• But what about the self-employed? Why your boss is incompetent: The Peter principle says people get promoted until they reach the level of their own incompetence — now mathematics proves it.
• Welcome To The Errordome. Post misunderstands Public Enemy, hilarity ensues (be sure to read the comments).
• Slide Show: 10 Views of Earth from the Moon, Mars and Beyond. Another cool image: Sunlight glints off liquid (hydrocarbon) lake on Saturn’s moon Titan.
• Mom, get your kleenex: Woman abandoned in Fairfax as a baby finds her rescuers. Via the ‘net, natch.
• And finally, Pair Find Stranger Asleep on Couch Cuddling a Bear.

– cpd

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