Quick Hits — October 1, 2008

The weirdest/most intense political year just won’t slow down.

• Finance Industry Giving Visualized. “Wonder just how Wall Street has become so influential on Capitol Hill that it can command the attention of the federal government from the President on down?”
• Conservative bloggers up in arms over Ifill.
• Palin rocks the Internet. C.f. Sarah Palin: the talk of the Web.
• Palin Had a Third Private E-mail Account.
• How Decentralized Presidential Campaigns Impacted the Bailout.
• The Omen In My Mail. Not much love online for a conservative who criticizes Palin.
• U.S. Political Campaign Discourse Explodes Online. Online communications feedback loops.
• Enviro Group Expands Palin Wolf-Hunting Policy Ad Buy after fundraising boom, major blog pickup — candidates not the only ones who benefit from a surge of overnight online fundraising.
• Women on Track to Triple Overall Political Donations in 2008, Says First Report About Women’s Online Political Giving.
• Campaigns Adjust as Early Voting Rises. Email and phones! C.f. Early Voting Forces New Strategies.
• Using pre-release video to promote a Warren Buffett book. Via Mike Allen.
• Group Seeking Immigration Curbs Launches Web Ads.
• YouTube Hot Spots Shows Publishers When Their Viewers Jump Ship.
• Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China.
• The 6 best online sources for election wear.
• Internet captures shiftless Canadian youth: “Meanwhile, young voters who are engaged online by a political party are 20 per cent more likely to vote.”
• Glide America Mixes Politics With Social Networking.
• SendTec and MediaPost Still Clueless on Presidential Search.
• Get Your Ballot Initative On: A Mini Guide to Navigating Direct Democracy.
• Online advocacy lessons from Greenpeace, East and West Africa.
• Cali’s Prop 8 Battle Being Waged Online, and Waged Well.
• Grenade found in park near 16th Street. Dammit — wondered where I’d left that thing. Did the dope-sniffing turtle find it?
• Sarah Palin’s nude bar portrait. The creepy part? The bar owner/artist’s daughter was the body model.
• The design (and funding) of extremely large telescopes.
• A UCSD student’s view of a DC debate-watching party. Innocence abroad.

– cpd