Quick Hits — November 10, 2008

Back from post-election mental vacation, if not exactly willingly.

• Big-picture pieces: How Obama won and How He Did It, both via PoliticalWire.
• Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic. What a difference five years makes, if you use it right — Before He Was President, Mistaken for a Waiter: a 2003 Obama Meeting.
• ‘Netroots’ Candidate Concedes Wash. State Race, but Virgil Goode is gone. A quiet win for civility (and civilization) on November 4th.
• The National Mall Takeover: organizing online to conquer the Inauguration. Also, aiming to get One Million Volunteers by Inauguration.
• Obama Malware Hits Inboxes as Spammers Seize On Obama’s Moment and Obama and McCain Campaign Systems Were Hacked.
• Will Obama Do For Web What FDR Did For Radio?
• Breaking Down The Election Season, Minute-By-Minute. Cool idea: using audio fingerprinting to track which online video clips actually mattered in the campaign. C.f. Post-Election Google Searches.
• Old-School Social Media: The Art of the Yardsign.
• John and Cindy’s ‘Thank You’ Email.
• Obama’s election-night Flickr photos, via Micropersuasion. An example of Privacy in Public: Social Media.
• The Future of Campaign Technology: The Ground Game. You better believe it. Also, What’s Next for My.BarackObama.com?
• Change.Gov is Up — Obama Shares Vision, Plans & Hopes, Wants to Hear Yours. But first, Obama Transition Web Site Hits a Glitch and some alternatives: On the Web, Change You Can Change Into. And, Change.gov and the Contradiction of the Postmodern Left Netroots.
• Obama Takes his Internet Strategy into The White House, via TechRepublican, and The Oval Office Facebook Group, via K Street Cafe.
• The Internet Should Kill 2012 Talk. The internet effect shatters all political crystal balls. C.f. 2008 Election Recount Part 1 — The Palin Effect. Hint: it involves online fundraising.
• Did Anyone Use the Obama iPhone Application?
• Obama’s Online Ad Spend Approached $8 Million.
• The Most Powerful List in American Politics.
• Eyes Right After Election. The fleeting nature of political victory. C.f. Republicans enter the wilderness.
• The Klan Chimes In on Obama. In this case, the chimes sound have the sound of heads exploding — cognitive matter has met its antimatter antithesis.
• Live-Blogging the Obama News Conference.
• Via email, Willie will save us all (a fact Texans know from birth). Bonus video — a Willie/Snoop Dogg duet.
• The Viral Preferences of Twitter Users.
• How Your Prospect’s Facebook Network is Stealing Real Estate Business.
• Measuring ROI in the Blogosphere: Harnessing an Unregulated Space, via K Street Cafe.
• Does (your web development) Platform Matter?
• Obama Caught Palling Around With Google CEO Schmidt, but what’s that sound in the distance? Bezos Buzzzzzz.

– cpd