- For 2012 Presidential Debates, Campaigns Speed Up The Spin. For good reason: Risk of gaffes heightened in age of Twitter.
- Post-Debate, Obama Attacks Swiftly on Twitter, Jabs Romney on Swing Sites. C.f. Debate online rapid response in action.
- Campaigns Use Social Media to Lure Younger Voters. But, Welcome to the bubble: Most people don’t use social networking for politics.
- Mashable Debuts First E-Book: Politics Transformed.
- Engagement Organizing: The Technology and Culture of Building Power.
- When Internet Memes Hit K Street.
- Social networks plan digital side of presidential debates, but Debate Moderators Largely Bypass Social Media In Preparing Questions. Latest headline from the PSA: Live presidential debate goes interactive on Xbox Live tonight.
- How Technology Destroyed The Once Substantive Presidential Debate. C.f. the most meaningful political coverage ever: The Guardian and Tumblr will ‘live-GIF’ first presidential debate.
- Google Image Search For “Completely Wrong” Brings Up Page Full Of Mitt Romney Photos.
- Satellite broadband gets millions more Africans online.
- More Democrats Sign Up for Political Texts Than Republicans. But note that “a mere 5 percent of registered voters with cellphones have actually coughed up their mobile phone numbers according to a new Pew report.”
- Romney’s Fundraising Comes Down to Earth. The GOP nominee lags Obama in small donors and dollars under his direct control. They’re related and could be crucial.
- Ralph Reed hopes to lift Romney to victory.
- Man Microtargets for Food, But Sometimes There Must Be a Beverage. C.f. Romney’s Plan to Win Virginia: Lyme Disease.
- Does Your Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Drive Register?
- Early Brands and Politicos Try Twitter Header.
- Obama Group Slams Romney in Web Ads.
- How One Group is Training Tech-Savvy Conservatives.
- Maine Democrat is Supposedly Unfit For Office Because She Loves ‘Poisoning and Stabbing’ in World of Warcraft.
- Shell Blocks Employee Access to Activist Website.
- Obama camp hammers Romney comments through social media.
- Attentive.ly gets some coverage! Women-Owned Startup Attentive.ly Gives Clients Social Stats of Email Subscribers, and Startup aims to fill gap in social CRM space.
- Election 2012: The myth of the small donor.
- Obama team touts strength of voter-turnout efforts. But, Republican Committee Seeks to Match Obama Ground Game. C.f. Obama vs. Romney: a side by side comparison of campaign offices, plus Obama campaign holds ground-game advantage as early voting begins and Obama team claims more than 4,000 debate watch parties.
- Twitter Is Really Bad at Measuring Your Online Influence. Let’s Keep It That Way.
- Hot New Facebook Alternative: MySpace? Meanwhile, Facebook’s About-Face on Sharing Gives News Sites Whiplash.
- Hostage-Taker Updates Facebook During Police Standoff. Priorities.
- Election Hackathon!
- The Race to Preserve History as It Happens Online.
- Can’t Drudge Do Anything Right? Is race-baiting art or science?
- The parallel (online) universe where Mitt Romney leads all polls.
- MasterCard Deal Gives Brands Peek Into Consumers’ Offline Spending.
- LinkedIn now lets you follow “Thought Leaders,” including Romney and Obama.
- Introducing Political Kombat ’12: The presidential campaign told as a series of video game fights.
- Facebook Finally Becomes a Place to Win Votes. More on Fb’s voter-file targeting options.
- Reinventing video news for your smartphone.
- Map: Red States = Teen Moms.
- Did USA Today invent web page layout years before there were web pages?
- How the Election Wasn’t Bought.
- The Rapturous (Online) Reception of Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan.
- This Picture Is Worth 1,000 Pictures. Intense.
- NASA’s Curiosity Rover Checks In on Foursquare, Aims To Be Mayor of Mars.
- Latest Obama Fund-Raising Gambit: Their 20th Anniversary.
- Facebook Hits 1 Billion Users, Hires Iñárritu To Make Commercial Comparing It to Chairs.
- The Internet and the Political Process: 16 Years Later.
- The Lie Factory: the invention of political consulting.
– cpd