Back to work! Here’s what you’ve missed the past few days:
- Have a Peaceful Memorial Day Week-end, Undeclared Superdelegates! Love, Arianna.
- Keynote presentation: Russell Simmons on how hip-hop fans build brands. Note: we’re going to the wrong conferences.
- China’s leaders’ new media-savviness. Meanwhile, Sudan’s leaders use technology to send a much older message — all they need are a few more heads on pikes (also check out the details of the rebel assault, more spaghetti western than D-Day).
- Obama, Clinton’s record campaign finances overwhelm Excel. But you can still read McCain’s numbers in a spreadsheet.
- McCain campaign seeks supportive blog comments, while TheNextRight.com seeks to rescue the Republican party (via Google Alert/SaveTheGOP.com).
- Ralph Nader and the Komodo Dragon. Bad, bad press work.
- Anti-Israel work on Wikipedia? The latest of several articles on this topic that have dropped in one way or another.
- Reviewing an MP’s site. All online politics is local.
- Senate Race in Minnesota Shows Power of Bloggers. Suggested by Farra Trompeter.
- Obama and the Jews: Voter-Generated Content Adds Context.
- Why banners fail. Not just because of insufficient waving.
- Politico’s John Harris notices that small stories get hyped out of proportion, but Glenn Greenwald isn’t impressed by his overnight conversion. But without endless blather, how would the cable news people pass the time?
- Flash is the new black. Make sure your online ads are In Style.
- Exposed! On the dangers of living an open life online — suggested by Burt Edwards, who is well known for his blatantly public displays of self-revelation (or not).
- Get ready for the World Live Web. Suggested by a loyal reader (thanks Dad).
- Who’s Gushing Now: World Oil Reserves. An oily Google map; c.f. May 26, 1908: Mideast Oil (and plenty of blood) Discovered.
- IsBarackObamaMuslim.com: The Rise of Nanosites. Hey Luigi, get your own ideas! See also this piece, where Mr. Montanez gives a Very Special anatomy lesson.
- For Hybrid Drivers, Every Trip Is a Race for Fuel Efficiency. On the beneficial consequences of displaying information to users; c.f the site Green Interfaces.
- Lanny Davis Goes Off Message. Let’s forward some lies.
- Strange hate for Rachael Ray on a rightie blog.
- Microsoft doesn’t like to give information away. Heard of Google, y’all?
- Google China’s Search Log Displays Moment of Mourning, via HowTheWorldWorks.
- Video versus the written word.
- Did Newsweek leave an anti-Obama piece out of its online promotion on purpose?
- Landing Page Optimization for Online Fundraising.
- Does McCain Have a YouTube Problem? Robert Greenwald’s anti-McCain film has been seen 1.3 million times in a week.
- Others make the case for Obama/Webb. See the e.politics take here and here (the latter including a Very Special personal ad).
- Long-term fallout for Obama from last summer’s YouTube debate.
- Online, It’s Target Clinton.
- Straight Outta Denver: LiveBarr.
- Obama’s Web Ads May Have Driven Big North Carolina Win. Mighty bold claim.
- The future of political dirty tricks and deception online, via Politics Online.
- Fascinating portrait of Moqtada Al Sadr’s attempted redefinition, including this excellent quote: “He is not the kind of man,” Obaidi said, “who plucks the fruit before it is ripe.”
– cpd