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Quick Hits — December 23, 2011

December 23rd, 2011

Your holiday reading list, no unwrapping required.

• Obama tops among Tweeters, via K Street Cafe. Plus, With #40Dollars Push, White House Cracks a Twitter Engagement Code. Update: Inside the White House’s Twitter blitz on payroll tax, via AmericaFreeTV.
• Paul Video Ads Attack Gingrich in New Hampshire, while Perry Pushes Iowa Faith Message on Pandora and Facebook, Meanwhile, From YouTube to Facebook, New Digital Targeting Helps Romney Campaign Reach Voters.
• Vincent Harris: Obama’s Paper Tiger Facebook Page.
• Russian Internet revolution fuels protest, serving as More Proof of the Internet’s Power. Meanwhile, Russian Web gets protesters’ word out.
• World Citizen: Facebook, Twitter and the Protests of 2011.
• New Research Reveals Internet’s Impact on Political Discourse and Advertising: Survey Shows Online Conversations and Debates are Driving Votes.
• Facebook and Twitter use boosts election chances. Big question: correlation or causation?
• Candidates Face New Risks on YouTube. By our good friend Doktor Alan Rosenblatt.
• RNC Moves Voter Data Outside to Compete With Democrats.
• Obama’s Re-Election Path May Be Written in Will St. Clair’s Code. Profiling an Obama campaign techie. C.f. Inside an Obama field team.
• Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and Go Daddy Shield Scott Walker’s Online Guerillas.
• How Big Telecom Used Smartphones to Create a New Digital Divide.
• Welcome to the first ‘Twitter election’. E.politics is very tired of the “this is the X election” meme.
• Infographic Reveals How Content Goes Viral, via Steph Drahan.
• Playing With Mud: The hobbyist oppo researcher. How YOU can make Newt, Mitt and Rick squirm in your spare time.
• Baking social media into Newt’s phonebanking campaign.
• Mr. Washington Goes to Anonymous.
• Downfall of the Herman Cain Campaign – a social media analysis.
• Less knowledge, more power: Uninformed can be vital to democracy, study finds, at least among fish. Via Erinn Larkin.
• “On the Web, Both NBC.com and LouisCK.com… Are Equals”.
• Titans of social networking and left politics unite to form media start-up: Facebook co-founder joins MoveOn president and former Onion editor to create viral network devoted to progressive causes. Let’s hope they learn from Juno’s failure.
• Tip: Use kicker emails to boost action rates.
• Obama’s dishonest Israel ads: New Facebook ads raise the specter of Republicans cutting American aid to Israel.
• The ridiculous new war on “Twitter terrorism”.
• Inside search engines’ war on bad results.
• Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front.
• The slick shtick of Americans Elect. “Just what Americans yearn for: A high-tech presidential ticket funded by secret Wall Street money.”
• Tip: Use video to motivate action.
• 4 marketing megatrends you need to watch.
• Latest Survey Says People Plan to Donate More to Charity this Holiday Season. C.f. The Evolution of Online Donors.
• 15 Steps to an Awesome Website Launch.
• NW Pub Reports: Larsen Aides Booze it Up at Work. More on the kids and their tweeting. Loose lips sink ships, er, legislative careers.
• Public access politics: new online innovations from two different countries that allow voters to judge election candidates.
• Brands Remember: Facebook Timeline Will Be on Mobile, Other Apps.
• Teens Heavy Mobile Users. But Those Ads? Not So Much.
• In #HackWeTrust — The House of Representatives Opens Its Doors to Transparency Through Technology, via K Street Cafe.
• As Mobile Ad Industry Expands, So Do Its Measurement Tools.
• Kyrgyzstan: Online Crowdsourcing Project Wades into Language Politics.
• Google Pages Get Multiple Admins.
• “I’m proud of my work with ACORN” — A NationBuilder conversation with friend-of-e.politics Nathan Henderson James on lessons from the rise and fall of an organizing giant.
• NationalField Thinks Your Business Needs Its Own Social Network.
• Barb Wold, pioneer in online activism passes away.
• Director makes first smartphone movie, starring Gena Rowlands. Via A Loyal Reader (thanks Dad!)
• The HILLstory flowchart. Painfully accurate, and via Eric Maag.
• And finally: Behind New Zealand sperm scandal, an Alabama political legend.

– cpd