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Quick Hits — March 9, 2010

March 9th, 2010

More good stories than we could possibly deserve.

• RNC document mocks donors, plays on ‘fear’, which of course sparks a Democratic fundraising drive in response. But the Empire strikes back: RNC email raises money off of Rangel. In a related story, lo how the mighty have fallen: Rangel’s profile pic is removed from the Ways and Means Committee Twitter feed (via Brian Devine).
• Partners in New D.C. Firm Cut Teeth on GOP Controversy.
• Taming the Cyclone. White House PR in a new-media age.
• At Last — The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded.
• Feds: Don’t lie about healthcare reform on Facebook.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce is building a grassroots army.
• China’s Hacker Army. “The myth of a monolithic Chinese cyberwar is starting to be dismantled. A look inside the teeming, chaotic world that exists instead — and that may be far more dangerous.” C.f. Selections from a hacker’s manifesto and how-to guide written by one of China’s preeminent hackers and White House Cyber Czar: ‘There Is No Cyberwar.’
• Israelis Nix Operation After Facebook Fiasco. Loose posts sink ships!
• Infographic: A Brief History of Senate Reconciliation Votes C.f Political data junkie alert: WSJ on the House vote for the health care bill and Health reform vote counting update: crowdsourcing the Stupak bloc.
• Right-wing blogger talks revolution over reconciliation.
• Impending Stop & Shop Strike Gathers Steam and Supporters From Facebook.
• Candidates kicking the TV ad addiction. In favor of online?
• Comic spoofs Western nerds’ dating success in Japan. How much are tickets to Tokyo?
• “I will take our troops out of the war zone and put them into space!” NOW we’re talkin’ politics.
• Cellphones Let Shoppers Point, Click and Purchase. Next up: letting lobbyists point, click and purchase Congress. Via A Loyal Reader (thanks, Dad!).
• Clean energy update; Personal Solar Panel Twenty Time More Powerful Than Rivals, while a Backpack Hydroelectric Plant Gives You 500 Watts on the Move. C.f. 10 Companies Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure and Is ARPA-E Enough to Keep the U.S. on the Cutting-Edge of a Clean Energy Revolution?
• Tablets Will Have To Succeed Without Porn. Can they go where VCRs, DVDs and broadband feared to tread?
• “Hurt Locker” email blast breaks Oscar rules.
• A banner on the Drudge Report mocks McCain — and provokes an outcry from his campaign.
• Roberts Resignation Rumor Started by Law Professor. Time from classroom joke to internet: 10 minutes. C.f. Retracing the Road to that Roberts Rumor.
• A Bike Theft in the Time of Twitter.
• Face(book) the State: Connecticut Legislators take to social media.
• How to Create Web Pages That Share Beautifully on Facebook.
• Display (Advertising)’s Matching Problem, via Brad Terrell.
• Connecting with… Jonah Seiger: Online Politico. Catching up with an online politics veteran.
• Army Turns to Smartphone ‘Apps’ to Win Wars. C.f. A real result from the Veterans Affairs innovation initiative.
• New Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated Charts, and Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs.
• Another stat that shows how social media is getting older.
• John Patrick Bedell: Pentagon Shooter, Wikipedian.
• The Tea Party Could Benefit from Some Data Standardization.
• Google Earth Launches Marine Tour With Top Scientists.
• Redesigning Websites in Public. Much like working on an airplane in flight
• Whistleblower Site Back After Microsoft Withdraws Complaint.
• Iraqi Election — Music Videos and Propaganda.
• FarmVille Ad Helps Bing Zoom Past Google on Facebook.
• Google Rolls Out ‘Above the Fold’ Targeting on Content Network.
• Social media IS effective for nonprofits and small businesses.
• Data Shows: Articles Published on the Weekend are Shared on Facebook More, and that Facebook is Better for Video Marketing Than Twitter.
• Top Nonprofit Leaders to Follow on Twitter.
• The Newest Technology for the Hill. (Skype, apparently).
• Foursquare for Advocacy.
• SEO for Political Campaign Candidate Websites.
• Audio Slideshows: 4 Examples of What Works and Doesn’t.
• (Australian) Government: Don’t feed the trolls.
• Ads Drop Dot-Com URLs in Favor of “Facebook Us.”
• 9 Keys to Using Online Video to Increase Your Nonprofit Marketing Impact.
• 5 Tactics Advocacy Organizations Will Use in 2010.
• 8 Easy Twitter Monitoring Ideas.
• Google’s Establishmentarianism. Meet the new boss.
• Right-roots vs Net-roots: Whose Online Donor Base is Bigger?
• Twitter Isn’t A Toy. A warning to campaigns.
• Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free. Jetpacks for the masses.
• Roadmap: Make Your Corporate Websites Relevant by Integrating Facebook, Google, MySpace, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
• Is 2010 the Year Digital Will Eclipse Print Ad Spending?
• SNL “presidents” gather for Web video summit.
• Obama’s Facebook page, the latest updates.
• Google’s “Unsettlingly Specific Apology.” About that mysterious rash you were investigating…

– cpd