Clearing a cache very full of stories — we’ll catch up with the online advocacy blogs next time around.
- Conservative blogger wishes death on Bobby Byrd, joins Sen. Coburn in keeping it classy.
- Repubs, Dems scrub YouTube of online ads about party-switching Congressmember.
- MoveOn comes out against Senate deal, while the Obama mega-list is tapped to help push health care across finish line.
- When bloggers attack: Jane Hamsher has some choice words for Hadassah Leiberman, or, The anti-feminist attack on Hadassah Lieberman. C.f. MoveOn raises $1M from Lieberman ad.
- SkyGrabber: the $26 software used by insurgents to hack into US drones.
- Why I Parted Ways with the Right. A conservative blogger bails.
- Al Gore, the Internet and the Future of American Politics.
- China Imposes New Internet Controls. This is starting to sound like a rerun. C.f. The Battle for Press Freedom Moves Online.
- Italians organizing online against Berlusconi. What to do when the other guy owns the TV coverage, quite literally.
- Twitter-organized snowball fight + short-fused cop = bad scene on U Street..
- Organizing for Socialism. A conservative looks at OFA and MyBarackObama.com.
- Charities Cry Foul on Chase Facebook Charitable Giving Contest.
- As Obama’s Poll Numbers Fall, Criticism of Multitasking Rises. Terrible headline, but an interesting take on an internet effect.
- In Animated Videos, News and Guesswork Mix. No footage? Fake it!
- Internet Threat Desk at Homeland Security.
- Leveraging the Internet to Target Voters in 2010.
- 10 tactics that will dominate digital in 2010.
- Settlement reached in suit over missing White House e-mails.
- With The Rise of Social Media, No Privacy for Tiger Woods. C.f. Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar and Love Is Fleeting. A Text Message Is Forever.
- Terrorist recruiters leverage the Web.
- The White House Takes On Politico.
- (UK) Blogger profile — Bryony King.
- Please Tweet This Afternoon on ABC. Twitter + TV news = new advocacy target.
- Even the soybean farmers are into online advocacy.
- Introducing the Capitol Hill Tweet Watch Report.
- Jordanian Queen calls on online world to unite on behalf of 75 million out-of-school children.
- Zero For Thirty-One: Lessons From the Loss in Maine.
- Most Googled Senators. C.f. Political Google.
- AOL’s Latest Dumb Business Plan: Write stories based on search terms, mimic universe’s worst news site.
- Arlington (TN) mayor fires at Obama online: Tags president as a Muslim on Facebook. Best part: “A Charlie Brown Christmas” figures heavily in his reasoning.
- Can Anyone Stop Facebook? Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t…. C.f. Mapping Facebook’s Recent Global Growth Versus Rivals.
- The Twitter Holdouts: Why is more than half of Congress still not on Twitter?. Lack of filibuster option, no doubt.
- No Pick-Up In Twitter’s U.S. Traffic In November. Actually, traffic looks flat since June.
- More Sarah Palin//Facebook fun, plus Birthers.
- New York State marriage debate produces a YouTube star. C.f. Online Advocacy Masterclass: Sen Diane Savino on the NY Senate Floor.
- Join a Facebook Group and Save the World! Maybe.
- The Future of Mobile is Local — Look at Yelp.
- Bob McDonnell’s Online Advertising.
- Why Twitter is the Most Popular Word of 2009.
- The new leadership style of enterprise 2.0.
- Democracy is Online. Blast from the past! A Steven Clift paper from 1998.
- With Lure of Cash, M.I.T. Group Builds a Balloon-Finding Team to Take Pentagon Prize . C.f. DARPA Challenge Competitors Already Mobilizing Social Networks.
- You’ll buy more from web ads that know how you think .
- Why kids self-destruct with cell phones and online.
- How to Kill a Great Idea. Why Friendster failed.
- The Circular Logic of the Universe. Dude, whoa.
- Why Does Google Search Love Examiner.com?
- Washington Post Story Lab blog: A story comes to life.
- Geeking out over the Internet, e.politics, and web television.
- Supreme Court Takes Texting Case.
- How To Tell Your VoteBuilders From Your MyBOs, Your Catalists From Your VANs. Oldie but goodie.
- Shocking news: The world is stable!
- 5 Strategies for Online Donations and Online Advocacy.
- 10 Top Tips for Social Media Advocacy.
- Governor O’Malley talks jobs at online town hall.
- Powering a Green Planet: Sustainable Energy, Made Interactive. Cool way to show info, and see also this poll.
- NASA Uses Algae to Turn Sewage Into Fuel. Yum.
- Films of the decade: “Children of Men”.
- But what about the self-employed? Why your boss is incompetent: The Peter principle says people get promoted until they reach the level of their own incompetence — now mathematics proves it.
- Welcome To The Errordome. Post misunderstands Public Enemy, hilarity ensues (be sure to read the comments).
- Slide Show: 10 Views of Earth from the Moon, Mars and Beyond. Another cool image: Sunlight glints off liquid (hydrocarbon) lake on Saturn’s moon Titan.
- Mom, get your kleenex: Woman abandoned in Fairfax as a baby finds her rescuers. Via the ‘net, natch.
- And finally, Pair Find Stranger Asleep on Couch Cuddling a Bear.
– cpd
RE: Can Anyone Stop Facebook?
I would say Facebook can and will stop Facebook. Since they are not profitable, their cash churn will end up putting them out of business.