Quick Hits — February 17, 2010

Let’s keep this one to a manageable size and catch up with the advocacy blogs next time.

• Update: @BarackObama, the president’s Twitter account, asks supporters to turn their icons into a jobs graph.
• Recovery Act – Year One and Interactive Map: One Year After Recovery, plus Making Sure Everyone in America Has Seen that Pelosi Jobs Chart and For stimulus ads, Dems, GOP go high-tech. Finally, Stimulating Hypocrisy: 111 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its Success.
• Sarah Palin Knocks Twitter, Calls It ‘Little Twittering Thing’, via Nisha Chittal.
• Rubio Raises $720K In Moneybomb Fundraiser. C.f. GOP sends out fundraising e-mail — in Pelosi’s name.
• Web Ad Plays Off Palin’s Hand Notes.
• National Survey Finds Majority of Journalists Now Depend on Social Media for Story Research.
• 3 Reasons the Future of Your Nonprofit Depends on Social Media. C.f. Social Media Adoption By U.S. Small Businesses Doubles in a year and New Facebook Statistics Show Big Increase in Content Sharing, Local Business Pages.
• Conversation on Blogs: It’s Mostly a Myth, via Amanda Chapel.
• AdSafe: User-Generated Content Can Be Hazardous to Brands.
• The Internet vs. Obama. Special Interest 3.0: Does online organizing make it harder to govern?
• How digital ads helped turn CNN’s Lou Dobbs problem into a PR nightmare (more on this shortly).
• Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks. Though they may want a second opinion: War game reveals U.S. lacks cyber-crisis skills. C.f. Google’s Diplomatic Alliance With U.S. Carries Risks.
• Hackers Hit Europe’s Carbon Market.
• China Alarmed by Threat to Security From Cyberattacks, as Political hacktivists turn to web attacks.
• Iran Takes Fight to Opposition Online.
• Reuters acts responsibly; rightwing bloggers dazed and confused.
• Few teenagers embracing Twitter, report finds. For once, the damn kids ARE staying off my lawn.
• A face for politics: New study shows we can tell Democrats from Republicans in head shots.
• Don’t Touch That Dial! A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. Books are evil! And so’s everything else that transmits information, apparently.
• G.O.P. Group to Promote Conservative Ideas. Modeled on the Center For American Progress and its direct outreach, including online.
• Fundraising 2009 — was it good for you?
• Needless Delays and Filibusters Run Amok: A Case Study. White House blog as bully pulpit. C.f. Adding More Twitter to the White House Press Mix.
• Leveraging Love and Tech to Organize on Valentine’s Day: Online Tools for Progressive Clergy to Advocate for LGBT Community.
• Japanese astronaut sends valentine via Twitter.
• Student’s Facebook Tirade Against Teacher Is Protected Speech.
• Time Spent on Facebook Is Soaring.
• Number of Cell Phones Worldwide Hits 4.6B, via Infodiva.
• 3D images of the sun on your iphone.
• GPS reaches battlefield artillery rockets (except that you still need to point them at the right target). C.f. U.S. curtails use of airstrikes in assault on Marja
• 7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress.
• Thirteen Lessons from “Too Fat to Fly”: Kevin Smith vs. Southwest Air, as Southwest, Smith Clash Illustrates Blogs’ Marketing Role.
• Key to victory — The (New Zealand) campaign in cyberspace.
• Twitter etc and the (British) election: Is it worth the risk?.
• Typos may earn Google $500m a year.
• Help Apolinar Gonzales Save Idealist.org.
• Facebook’s DC office introduction to Washington party (the e.politics invitation was apparently lost in the mail).
• “Miss Me Yet?” Bush Merchandise a Hit Online. But only among those with very short memories.
• If Kim Kardashian gets $10,000 a tweet, last week she made…
• The improbable persistence of Ozzy Osbourne. Improbable? Only if you foolishly doubt the power of the Ozz.

– cpd