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E.politics is Now on Twitter

Resistance is futile: e.politics has surrendered to the Twitter Borg. Now you’ll be able to find out what our staff (i.e., the cat and the turtle) have for breakfast every single day! Farewell, productive time…

Seriously, I’m experimenting with Twitter to get general impressions and a better feel for it as a communications channel. At the moment, I’ll mostly be sending out notifications of new e.pol articles via Twitterfeed, but let’s see what the future brings.

– cpd

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Quick Hits — May 7, 2008

• Update: The Obama Camp Dials It Forward. Post-primary conference call plays it subtle, while all is well in ClintonLand.
• McCain Launches Spanish-Language Website. Wonder how the Minutemen (no, not THE Minutemen) will feel about THAT one?
• Bury bad news with online press releases. Somebody forward this to Hillary Clinton. C.f. Craigslist Ad Of The Day.
• The critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin. From gin to sitcoms to lolcats, via Henry Copeland.
• Bunches o’ Studies and Stats on Nonprofit Marketing.
• How-To: 10 Tips for Launching a Solid Podcast.
• Two new guides to presidential online advertising from Clickz, Online Presidential Display Ads Leading to the 2008 Primaries and All Primaries Are Local: 2008 Presidential Campaigns Buy Local Online.
• The Tale of the E-mail. Hillary and Barack’s constrasting post-Indiana/NC notes. C.f. She’s Still In, And She’s Still In To Win.
• Pew Study Confirms Cell Phones Rule.
• Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth.
• Right now, I’m watching the President of the Utah State Senate on my desktop. Julie, you had me at “desktop.”
• Google Reader is becoming more of a social networking application.
• Twitter Post Rescues Jailed Journalist, but Egyptians ignore Facebook call.
• How the White House lost 5 million e-mails.
• Jailed Chinese Journalist Shi Tao’s Poem Follows Olympic Torch’s Route Online.
• Matt Stoller on how liberals rule the web, and The Baltimore Sun on how Matt and friends raised 400K for Donna Edwards. Via tPrez.
• Phantom Obama Vote Appears on NJ Voting Machine.
• Web Ads from Left and Right Advocacy Groups Signal More to Come.
• Media criticism in context: “Yes, it would be nice if the press spent less time on inanities and more time on how candidates planned to actually run the country. But this view of the media is just too simplistic.” Via Salon.
• North Carolina Radio Host Reports Anti-Obama Chain E-Mail Distortion As Fact. C.f. Pennebaker: Clip Doctored, about the Mickey Kantor video distortion. (also via tPrez).
• Union-organizing emails get employees of a social networking site fired! Sent around by Michael Whitney.
• Clinton’s and McCain’s Gasoline Tax Holiday Reimagined as a Phishing Scam.
• National Intelligence Agency Breaks Out RSS Feed.
• 6% are Natural Born Clickers.
• Twitter frenzy! Using Twitter for Your Organization, Use TwitterFone For Easy Voice-To-Text On Twitter, and Political Junkies Congregate and Comment on Election Results Through Twitter. Plus, 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence and The Bivings Group Does Twitter.
• Yes, a Montana cattle ranch is using banner ads combined with search ads to sell their premium beef via the internet.
• 10 Valuable Tips for Shooting Web Video. Via Frogloop.
• Google, YouTube and the city of New Orleans try to host their own presidential forum. Via Mike Allen.
• Video: how primary-season attacks have been amplified in the general election.
• FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret ‘National Security Letter,’ Loses.
• Harold vs. Markos. Not everyone wants a unified Dem ticket.
• META Keywords are Legally Dead.
• Be very afraid: Engineers find ‘missing link’ of electronics. Robots take next step toward world domination.
• A minute and a half with Shana Glickfield…is enough to spark any man’s dreams.
• Clone-tool war on nipples continues. Complete with tragic casualty figures.

– cpd

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Quick Hits — April 28, 2008

• Adding Video to Turn Dead-End ‘Thank You’ Pages Into Viral Marketing Campaigns. The Obama campaign finds yet another sweet spot for online recruiting.
• The Post Is Having A Rough Day. Spam attack!
• Reluctantly, a Daily Stops Its Presses, Living Online.
• Rev. Wright Baits the Soundbiters.
• The Internet Goes Green. The growth of the envirosphere, via Micropersuasion.
• Space war would leave destructive legacy.
• McCain: It’s “clear who Hamas wants to be the next president.” Fruits of a blogger conference call.
• Google Earth Outreach Aides U.N. Track Refugees and Save Lives.
• Beyond Bittergate, Barack Yields Success to His Supporters.
• Obama’s Database Will Make Him the Power Broker. Another persistent political following! “Like Mussolini/ And Kennedy…”
• The chummy relationship of campaign professionals and journalists in Washington. Or, getting scolded for making fun of McCain on Facebook.
• Schism Grows Between Obama and Liberal Bloggers.
• Were Mesopotamians the first brand addicts?
• Subject Line, ‘From’ Address Crucial to Email Marketing.
• Who Stole the Plans for iRobot’s Battle Bots?
• YouTube vid inspires Obamacrombie t-shirts.
• Facebook as Weekly Evil.
• McCain on FriendFeed: “Considering the McCain campaign’s sometimes uneven online strategy, this is a step in the right direction.”
• Social Applications Dominate the Web.
• Gays, Lesbians More Receptive to Blog Ads than Heterosexuals.
• An overview of web mining in societal benefit areas.
• Top 10 Wireless Marketing Mistakes.
• 3 Top Tips to Improve Your Online Writing.
• Henry Copeland of Blogads: “As the social media winter looms, the winners will be the folks with strong relationships, low overheads, a strong commitment on innovation rather than coat-tail riding, and, most of all, a indelible passion for the business. We’re looking forward to seeing you after the bust.”
• Sorry Disney, But You’re Kind of a Skank Factory.
• DNC’s national cable ad buy. The RNC’s not so hot about it.
• Web Site Blames Sen. McConnell for Quorum-less FEC.
• The Twitter Disconnect. An introduction and how-to. Also, glimpse a hardcore Twitter-using life.
• Things Really Were Different Before Clinton-Obama. Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin…into the future.
• Which Government Agency Should Be Your Computer’s Firewall? HAL 9000 or black squirrels?

– cpd

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