Quick Hits — February 11, 2011
This week’s theme: A Farewell to Mubarak.
- Digital revolutionaries change Arab region, via @alvarolins, and Social Media Networks & Opposition Politics in Egypt. Plus, Anatomy of a revolution: Meet the young Egyptian activists who started it all, Wael Ghonim, Egypt, and Viral Revolution, and Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt.
- The Top 10 Social Tools for Starting Revolutions. C.f. Egypt: Social Media as a Life or Death Proposition and Egypt, The Age Of Disruption And The ‘Me’ In Media.
- Syria Facebook, YouTube Ban Lifted.
- The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL, Politico v HuffPo, Huffington Post and AOL: the end of Web 2.0, and How The Huffington Post Works (In Case You Were Wondering). Meanwhile, AOL Drops $315 Million In Stock Value After Spending $315 Million On HuffPo.
- A warning about the internet its issuer should have heeded. Mubarak’s not the only politician to lose his job this week.
- State Department begins Tweeting in Arabic Just so long as they don’t do it in Texas.
- Using PopVox to fight the Patriot Act renewal.
- Lessons in branding from the Republican Party: an interview with Todd Herman. C.f. John Boehner’s Tech Innovation Wave into the Speaker’s Chair.
- Clever Valentine-related online action from Moms Rising, which apparently got so much attention that it crashed their servers.
- Action Alexandria. Online organizing is going local fast.
- Facebook Page Redesign 2011: All You Need to Know.
- Washington Post introduces “correct this post” button, via shaun dakin.
- HOW TO: Update Your Nonprofit’s Wikipedia Page (and Why You Should).
- When Viral Campaigns Fail and Social Media Mobs Rule. I’m gettin’ me some pitchforks and torches.
- And With That, OpenLeft Closes Up Shop.
- Yes, you can complain about your job on Facebook.
- Packers.com VS Steelers.com.
- How to adapt a gay-dating app for straight women.
- Koch Brothers Will Spend Big in 2012, including on voter microtargeting.
- Millennials Hooked on Social Networking.
- ComScore Says You Don’t Got Mail: Web Email Usage Declines, 59% Among Teens. Email declared dead, for the 20,000th time.
- The Truth about Engagement, Facebook and Email Marketing.
- The FCC Wants You to Get Your Map On.
- Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t, via K Street Cafe.
- Looking to Grow your Grassroots? Look to the Nonprofit Community.
- Internet Fame and the True Impact of Influence.
- Bill O’Reilly vs. Science: O’Reilly’s Top 8 Science FAILs.
- Introducing Slate’s Obama slogan generator.
- And finally, via Kayle Hatt, New iPhone, iPad app helps you keep track of sins. Hmmmm, my copy seems to need more memory….
– cpd
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