Quick Hits — September 18, 2008

• Update: Barack Obama Uses Google to Combat Vicious Rumors. Via Dan Lipman.
• Update: Palin Attuned More to Public Will, Less to Job’s Details. Note her questionable(?) use of email advocacy as governor.
• New viral email: Sarah Palin is annointed by God, has a role in the End Times. e.politics is buying duct tape, bottled water and ammunition. Lots of ammunition.
• How Sarah Palin’s email got hacked C.f. Group Posts E-Mail Hacked From Palin Account and Where Reforming Washington Meets Palin’s Private Emails. Update: Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy — and he may be the college-age son of a Democratic state legislator from Tennessee.
• Exclusive! The Onion also has Obama’s emails — be sure to check all three pages (via Erica Peth).
• The Many Faces of Sarah Palin Online. C.f. Palin Online: Staggering Numbers and the battle on Wikipedia.
• Internet Palin Sites Up for Sale.
• Blogette Girl: The shrewdly constructed persona of Meghan McCain.
• Candidates Strive to Break Through Media Fog.
• McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions. Note the role of online-only ads. C.f. The Power of Political Misinformation and Online Political Ads Have Facts and Fabrications Muddled on the Net.
• To the rescue: Hockey Moms For Truth. Via The Has Been.
• Picture: Dept. of Perfect Ad Placement.
• Sarah Palin As Chance the Gardener.
• YouTube Bans Videos ‘Intended to Incite Violence or Encourage Dangerous, Illegal Activities’. Booooooooooooooooooring.
• Text Messaging crashed that California train.
• Political Blogs are Making News.
• Coming to an Inbox Near You: The Clinton Spotlight.
• Gadgets That Collect Information Are Also Gathering Success.
• Democrats Launch a New ‘Lie Counter’ Site.
• Nader’s new web ad. Guess what, he’s running against the media, too. Via Trailhead.
• NBC Universal Zaps YouTube Uploads of SNL Skit On Sarah Palin.
• Public Service Coalition Uses Social Networking, Online Maps To Promote Volunteerism.
• Washington Post Grabs Syndication of Citizen Journalism Politics Series.
• Democracy and Elections: The Impact of Online Politics in Singapore.
• YouTube in the (Canadian) Federal Campaign: Will it go Viral?
• Video of various online notables, though the standards are low — they included e.politics.
• Integrating video into an online press release, via Burt Edwards.
• Build a widget on a budget.
• Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Tools for Digital Advocacy.
• Aaron Karo: Comedian and Intelligent Social Networker.
• Bounce Rate Data is Your Friend.
• Five Minutes with Fundraising Guru Ted Hart.
• I don’t writes ’em, I just links to ’em: Software spots the spin in political speeches. Money quote: Sure Obama’s a spinner, but “John McCain’s voice analysis profile looks like that of someone who is clinically depressed”

– cpd