Quick Hits — July 7, 2010

• Angle Takes Legal Action After Reid Re-Publishes Site. C.f. Scrubbing Sharron Angle.
• The latest in corporate damage control: Bob Dudley, Chief Executive for BP Response, answers your questions about the oil spill through YouTube, answers via live video stream. Latest use of YouTube’s CitizenTube channel, through which White House press secretary Roberts also recently answered questions.
• Democrats digging harder than ever for dirt on Republicans, in the process, recruiting the public to help. C.f. Democrats shaping battle plan against Republicans for November.
• Tracking Michael Steele’s Afghan Gaffe. Power to the people (with cameras).
• Huffington Post Buys Pollster.com.
• How Social Media Has Radically Altered Advertising.
• Whitman campaign counting on tech to fight Democrats boots on the ground, via Politico’s Morning Tech.
• The shortwave radio signals that the alleged Russian spies were using are still surprisingly effective.. C.f. The tech refresher Russia’s spies needed and The Sexy Russian Spy’s Business Plan (And A Video Interview)
• Virtual prisons: how e-maps are curtailing our freedom.
• Big Win for Texting Labor Leader.
• Putting voting locations on 4square.
• Citizen Journalism Platform Allvoices Growing Fast Thanks To Global Expansion.
• PepsiCo Buys Its Way Onto Science Blog Network As A Food Nutrition Expert. Hilarity ensues, as does blowback.
• Content is the new (and forever) black.
• Facebook’s U.S. growth slowed slightly after big May gains. 18-to-44-year-old demographic actually saw losses, possibly related to Facebook’s privacy issues. But take note: The First Thing Young Women Do in the Morning: Check Facebook, and people actually read ads in Facebook. Looking abroad, Europe’s Facebook Growth Moved East in June 2010.
• Almost 65 Million Facebook Users “Like” Things Daily.
• The Changing Face of Facebook Marketing — 5 Things you MUST Know.
• How Facebook Will Get To 1 Billion members.
• How We Got To 40,310 Facebook Fans In 4 Days.
• Is a social media bubble ready to burst?
• Facebook’s Founder: Nonprofit Groups Can’t Change the World.
• How Social Media is Changing the Way Government Does Business. C.f. Uncle Sam’s App Store.
• Protecting yourself, your subjects and your human rights videos on YouTube.
• Analyzing the California Campaign Stack. Learning from a failed candidate’s experiments.
• Leveraging blogger outreach.
• Domino’s ‘Show Us Your Pizza’ contest wants pictures of your pizza. Note: Domino’s is an NMS client
• Top Five Tools for Listening on the Social Web, and 22 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed.
• 7 Baby Steps to Bridge the Mobility Gap.
• The Claws Come Out Between Olbermann & Daily Caller on Twitter.
• Email Appends Are NOT Opt-In Email Addresses.
• Food Brands Get Sociable on Facebook and Twitter.
• Ray Kurzweil Vows to Right E-Reader Wrongs.
• Facebook Page Or Group: Which Should You Use? Depends on whether you think you’ll get 5000 followers or not. Also note that Page tabs are becoming easier to make.
• Memo to E-mail Marketers: Less is More with Deliverability.
• Economist Defends Photoshopping Obama Cover.
• The 10 Founding Fathers of the Web.
• Time to get a new job: Prince says, “The internet’s completely over”.
• Lady Gaga Beats Obama to 10 Million Facebook Fans.
• Web Prank Tries to Send Justin Bieber to North Korea, making Kim Jong Il so excited he topples off his elevator shoes.
• And finally: DARPA to make flying submarine?

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– cpd