Quick Hits returns, well rested and ready to rock.
- Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page Slam ‘Outrageous’ PRISM Reports, C’mon folks — THEY get to use our data for their own purposes.
- White House, House GOP trade three-word barbs over ObamaCare. Yay, substance. C.f. Dems, Republicans clash on healthcare repeal over Twitter.
- Nonprofits’ Online Fundraising Grew 21% in 2012. Email still dominates over social media, but response rates are falling. Check the benchmarks. Meanwhile, New Data Shows Why Donors Breakup With Nonprofits.
- Terry McAuliffe Tests Obama Playbook in Virginia. C.f.: Early campaigns for Virginia governor toil on both the national and local stage (buncha microsites) and Virginia GOP convention epilogue (note AFP data-driven voter-registration drive).
- Introducing: Operation Troll the NSA. Is that a drone I hear in the distance?
- Mitch McConnell Wants to Be the Republican Party’s Chief Tech Innovator. “The 71-year-old GOP leader’s campaign sees closing the data gap with the Democrats as a key to reelection.” But…,: McConnell’s ‘viral’ sensation (literally) comes at a price.
- Republican National Committee to build platform to share voter data.
- Dean Vows to Flip State Legislatures. An eye on a practical prize.
- Smart Organizations Operate Like Media Outlets. Hey, where have we heard that before? (note: SIX YEARS ago. Kudos, Troy K. Schneider).
- Hillary Clinton joins Twitter!. This is news? The branding strategy’s interesting, at least, as is the list-size growth.
- Inside The Meltdown At America’s Most Conservative, Most Christian Political Consulting Firm. Wow. Via A Loyal Reader (thanks, dad).
- Turkish Prime Minister Blames Twitter for Unrest, Calls It “the Worst Menace to Society”. That’s pretty bad. C.f. On the front lines of Turkey’s Twitter wars.
- Protests in Turkey: Lies, Damn Lies, and Social Media.
- Idealware report: Cutting-Edge Social Media.
- Facebook Vows To Crack Down On Rape Joke Pages After Successful Protest, Boycott.
- How dangerous is a terrorist on Twitter? Microblogging apparently at odds with secrecy.
- If You’re Going To Use Social Media, Do It Right. C.f. Kiss Vanity (social media) Metrics Goodbye.
- Government Site Enables Facebook Users to “Citizen Cosponsor” Legislation. Prediction: will fix Everything.
- Teenagers Quitting Facebook Because It’s Full of Old People. Inevitable.
- Twitter Unveils Lead Generation Card, Great Addition to Any Advocacy Effort.
- Big Data Lessons for Brands from Obama’s Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani. Good stuff, along with The Big Brand Theory: The Obama Re-election Campaign and Friended: How the Obama Campaign Connected with Young Voters.
- The Women of OFEDA and Bloggers for Haiti.
- The Essential Guide to Growing Your Online Support for Nonprofits, and Unlocking Big Data in Philanthropy.
- Citizen journalism, crowdsourcing are changing news but not how we thought. C.f. Crowdsourcing done right.
- Mark Zuckerberg’s New Political Group Spending Big On Ads Supporting Keystone XL And Oil Drilling. Wonder who that’ll piss off. C.f. Marco Rubio appears in Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration video.
- ‘March for Innovation’ Campaign Goes Social, Skips Email. Your Mileage May Vary.
- The problem with Twitter. Wheat v chaff; chaff winning
- You Won’t Finish This Article: why people online don’t read to the end.
- The age of ‘slacktivism’: Online advocacy has many supporters and detractors.
- Obama campaign’s Amelia Showalter takes her skillz to the Hill. Obama campaign had ~4000 staffers on election day. Wonder what they’re all up to these days?
- Obama Inc.: What businesses want to learn from the president’s campaign.
- Is political reporting dying?
- Change.org Gets Omidyar Venture Capital Funding. Update: Ben Rattray to buy helicopter (#itsajokekids).
- In Britain, Online politics rising factor In citizen engagement – or lack of it.
- Sorry, Media Matters, no one actually wants your talking points. Investigating a “talking point distribution experiment”.
- Others Have Seen Video of Mayor Smoking Crack. Others?
- In Praise of Econowonkery.
- Can Cell Phone Metadata Hurt Your Privacy and Save America?
- Move over Blackbaud-osaurus, Make Room for the New Cloud in Town.
- Tibet taboo leads to cyberattacks on film crew.
- Online publishers, pay attention: How Slate doubled Facebook referrals in less than a year.
- Twitter Tackles ‘Black Privilege’. Using a #blackprivilege hashtag, users eviscerate an offensive blog on reverse racism. Meanwhile, this Crazy righty sez (on Twitter), Karen Finney’s not black enough.
- As cyberthreats mount, hacker’s conviction underscores criticism of government overreach.
- From Afar, How to Use Twitter Effectively During a Crisis, by past e.pol contributor Abigail Collazo.
- The Socio-Economic Benefits of the ZIP Code. Damn useful critter, turns out.
- Politico’s Innumeracy Ruining 61 Million Lives. C.f. Will Politico Get Its Own ‘No Shame Award’?
- OFA On Climate Change: Obama-Allied Group Enters The Climate Wars.
- Conservative advocacy group to launch six-figure ad campaign before Obama’s budget rollout.
- How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels), via Alexis Madrigal.
- Case Study: Obama for America Tech Team Improves on Tradition with Technology with Help from New Relic.
- The New House Republican Web Strategy: Just Add BuzzFeed.
- Politico Twitter Story ‘Terrific’ and Obvious. Featuring friend-of-e.politics Greg Greene (true fact: we went to nerd camp together).
- The Dangers of Reporting From Twitter.
- The Future of the Internet Is Still Ads — And You’re the Inventory.
- Capture and Share Events with Mobile Apps.
- The right and wrong way to do Google AdWords.
- Stop Thinking ‘Social Media’, Start Thinking ‘Social Business’.
- Cyberattack on Florida election is first known case in US, experts say.
- Google Reader Is Shutting Down; Here Are the Best Alternatives. Goddammit. C.f. It’s Not Just Reader: Google Kills Chrome RSS Add-On Too.
- Why Facebook Might Rip Off Twitter’s Most #Annoying Feature. Hashtags are #datamining gold, apparently.
- In defense of GOP consultants: It’s the candidates’ fault.
- GOP Taps Tech Allies To Narrow Digital Gap.
- Could Twitter have prevented the Iraq War?.
- Cyber Sparks Flying in Korean Powder Keg.
- Oopsie! Politician Sorry for “Liking” Photo of Teenager’s Genitals.
- Ugh, get me a palate-cleanser, stat! If kittens rule the Internet, why do puppies reign in print?
- And finally, Taiwanese Animators Finally Tackle the Anthony Weiner Story. Thank. Fucking. God. At last! C.f. Weiner’s NYC mayoral campaign website shows… Pittsburgh?
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– cpd