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Quick Hits — August 13, 2010

August 13th, 2010

Extra-large Friday the 13th edition.

• Why 2010 State Legislative Races are Key, and With 2012 (and redistricting) in Mind, Parties Focus on Governorships.
• “A Series Of Tubes” Pays Tribute To Former Senator Ted Stevens. C.f. Unfortunate contextual advertising watch, Ted Stevens edition.
• Obama Thanks Facebook Fans for Birthday Card, Thousands Respond In Minutes.
• Nigerian President Shows How Politicians Should Use Facebook. C.f. Kenyan Elections: A Real-Time Mobile Revolution.
• Republicans Debut “V1,” the New New GOP.com.
• Three Troubling Trends in Digital Politics.
• More bloggers throwing hats in ring, plus the Next D.C. career: blogger relations. Note quotes from my NMS colleague Soren Dayton.
• Politicians Pony Up for Paid Online-Ad Plans. Note quotes from NMS CEO Pete Snyder, and also Rospars praising email.
• The Geopolitics of Google Earth — satellite imagery as political tool.
• Behind Healthcare.gov: How Washington Is Drawing Inspiration From Silicon Valley, Twitter.
• Public Prefers Candidates Who Serve Pork, But Not Tea. E.politics is shocked — SHOCKED — to find out that the rules of politics have not fundamentally changed.
• Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered, and Digg Gamed by Conservative Conspiracy; How Does Digg Bury It?
• The Tabloidy Goodness of TBD.com.
• PDF of Ruling to Overturn Prop 8 Goes Viral.
• Was Robert Gibbs’ ‘Professional Left’ Rant an Act of Political Genius?
• From Samizdat to Twitter: How Technology Is Making Censorship Irrelevant. C.f. Hiding files in Flickr pics will fool web censors.
• Google tracks political allegiances.
• Facebook Advertisers Boost Spending 10-Fold, COO Says, as Facebook’s US Traffic Back on Pace in July. Though note that the site may be hitting its saturation point for the U.S. market. C.f. Social Networking is Dominating On-Line Activity.
• FDA Warns Drug Manufacturer Over Facebook Marketing Strategy, and Asserted Authority Not Only Over Social Media, but Metadata Too.
• Twitter Still Grew 109 Percent (year-to-year) In June, Fueled By Global Visitors.
• Everyday Advocacy: Making a case for libraries is easy with web tools. Here’s how to get started.
• Sarah Palin, “Mama Grizzlies,” Carl Jung, and the Power of Archetypes. Er, maybe.
• Looking at The Graeme Frost Decade, as Attacks on Palin encounteree go wrong.
• Not Sarah Palin’s Friends: The Facebook posts Palin doesn’t want you to see.
• Donate to Dems, win a dinner with Obama. Hey, it worked during the campaign!
• Which local political blogs to follow during the 2010 election season.
• The New Media Mix: 76% TV & Radio, 24% Online, via Matt DeLuca.
• GOP.com still supports the 14th Amendment, even if Republican leaders don’t.
• Introducing the Sweet Spot: Latinos/Hispanics and Web 2.0. C.f. How Black People Use Twitter: The latest research on race and microblogging.
• Conservative, Liberal Sites Both Fueling Race “Conversation”, via War Room.
• The Twitter Verdict on Newsweek: All the mean and funny stuff people are tweeting about the magazine’s sale.
• The Joy of Listservs: One of the Internet’s earliest innovations is still one of its best.
• GOP Voters’ Top 20 19 Recycled Ideas For 2011. (Stale) fruit of crowdsourcing. But, Commenting is not crowdsourcing.
• When it comes to online politics, conservatives are waking up in Vegas. No doubt hungover.
• Republican candidate for local office confuses followers with ‘barebacking’ tweet.
• Sharron Angle’s media strategy: Appear on Fox, tell people to go to her website.
• If you want your video to go viral, hire a dancing cat.
• Facebook on Working with Media Organizations to Build Social News, and Slate’s experimenting with new ideas for multimedia journalism.
• Androids, iPhones Prepped for Battle in Army’s First-Ever App Contest, while U.S. Army Wants Nanomissiles to Launch Small Satellites .
• Calif. campaign watchdog eyes new Internet rules, via Matt DeLuca.
• Five Rock Stars I’d Let Rule the World.
• Kos has a new book, and it should be a Big Hit with the Tea Party set.
• Steve Slater: Working-class angst goes viral.
• How A 13 Year Old Gained 16,000 Fans In 96 Hours via an online advocacy campaign for his grandfather. Plus, a Brainy Bike Will Tweet Its Feelings to raise money for LiveStrong, and A Life-Saving Blood Drive on Facebook.
• How to raise funds for your nonprofit using social media, plus 5 Social Fundraising Alternatives to Facebook Causes.
• Mazda Puts Fans Behind The Wheel Of The Mazda2 in Facebook Game DriverVille. What would a political equivalent be?
• How To Steal Your Competitor’s Customers On Facebook. Or target your political rivals’ supporters, either way.
• CauseCast CEO on video marketing for nonprofits.
• Online politics in Canada, an overview (PDF), via this guy.
• 5 Reasons Why No One Is Reading Your Email Newsletter.
• Future on display: Technology you’ll want to stroke.
• Quayle Denies Link to (Sketchy) Website, but good luck with that.
• The Biggest Brands on Foursquare (and Facebook and Twitter).
• Reddit Proves Donations Can Work: Site Gets New Features, Server.
• 74% of Social Media Users Expect Cries for Help to Be Answered Within an Hour. Hey kids, what happens when the power goes out?
• 6 Ways Eye Tracking Is Changing the Web.
• Wikileaks Data Spurs App Development.
• Huckabee on Social Media Stump for Deal in Georgia, but Where’s Palin?
• Chávezian Populism, Delivered Via Twitter.
• Seed Advocates Tap Twitter to Save Russian Seed Bank.
• How the Military’s Own YouTube Videos are Revealing a New Breed of Soldier.
• Twitter’s Too Much for the Senate.
• Reagan Son Selling Email Done Right. As in, politically Right.
• Obama on The View: 10 People Have My Email, Half the Age of My Tweeter.
• WebTrends now tracking social media applications.
• YouTube upload limit increases to 15 minutes for all users.
• Pre-marketing: Is there an audience for your campaign?
• 5 Small Biz Web Design Trends to Watch. Good ideas for campaign microsites as well.
• Get Outdoors with The North Face Trailhead iPhone App. Paging enviro groups!
• Robot Butler for Astronauts Is a Hit on Twitter.
• How To Avoid a Social Media Disaster.
• U.S. Military Bans Personnel From Visiting Wikileaks; Pentagon Asks Site To Do The ‘Right Thing’. I’m sure that’ll work.
• Twitter Rolls Out Easy SMS Following, No Account Needed, Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips, and With Fast Follow You Can Get Tweets Via SMS Even If You Don’t Use Twitter. Plus, Twitter’s Social Graph Is About To Get Pumped Up. “Who To Follow” Is Social Steroids.
• Twitter Nabs A Longtime Facebooker And Yelp’s First Salesperson To Drive Ad Sales.
• Google, Twitter and Facebook build the semantic web.
• Why Google Wave’s Demise Is Good News for Facebook. Though don’t expect Google to quit its search for a “Facebook Killer”. Meanwhile, Let’s Celebrate Google’s Biggest Failures!
• The Biggest Brands on Foursquare (and Facebook and Twitter).
• Twitter Users Who Rack Up the Retweets Top Most Influential List.
• Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003. As in, from the dawn of time until 2003.
• XKCD-Inspired Cartoon Maps the World’s Social Networks. Clever.
• Blast from the past: Oratory — or hypnotic induction? Why’d we elect Obama? We were hyp-motized!
• Android Smartphones Outsell iPhone in First Half of 2010, but Study: iPhone Owners Have the Most Sex Partners. I KNEW I got that iPhone for a reason…
• Latest loveliness from Saturn.
• This is where I spend my weekdays. Fun at Work 101: Drinking Games, Chugging Contests and Office Bonding.
• And finally, Woman Discovers Husband’s Second Marriage On Facebook. Oopsie!

– cpd

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