The End of the Beginning!
- Mike Allen: “‘Thank you, Senator Clinton,’ says the home page of BarackObama.com, which harvests e-mail and text addresses with a form inviting: ‘Take a minute to thank her for her hard work and for supporting this campaign.'” (The Caucus has a screenshot). C.f. By Text, E-Mail and Blog, Obama Thanks Clinton, Primary Campaign ’08 Goes Out in a Digital Flurry, a look at Hillary’s site on The Day and her drop-out announcement email. But wait! Angry Clinton Supporters Start Rallying for McCain Online.
 - Update: An Obama Delegate’s Road to Politics Began With an Online Donation.
 - Update: Obama quote: “What I didn’t anticipate was how effectively we could use the Internet to harness that grassroots base, both on the financial side and the organizing side.” Via PoliticsOnline.
 - Update: ACU blows it on threat of CPAC facebook group legal action.
 - Update: Media Death March: The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper.
 - Obama, Propelled by the Net, Wins Democratic Nomination. C.f. Mike Cornfield: No Internet, No Obama.
 - McCain Googles for Veep.
 - Obama and the Holocaust. Also, The Right Quarrels Over MyBarackObama.com. Alert: social media backlash. C.f. (in the second article) the section on the citizen journalist who caught Obama’s most “bitter” of campaign moments.
 - The Clinton Campaign and the Media. The Times would like to know what you think about its coverage.
 - Oh, the Changing Blogosphere.
 - Frist Email: “Democrats win landslide victory”.
 - NYTimes to open content via API.
 - Will Linkbait Ruin the Internet? Note the fake story about the kid who stole his dad’s credit card so he could pay the hookers.
 - Planning an Online Viral Marketing Campaign.
 - Step-by-step guidelines for proper online ad buys, from the Internet Advertising Bureau.
 - Building a (Fundraising) Base with Pledges.
 - I’m Not a Superdelegate, But I Play One on the Internet. Suggested by my former NET colleague Henry Coppola, who’s currently playing a jobseeker.
 - Interactive Billboards?
 - Phoenix lander is on Twitter.
 - Abstinence campaign begins with email.
 - YouTube causes Obama to quit his church.
 - Using Facebook to organize your protest. Your booze-fueled Tube protest, that is.
 - Email Marketing for MySpace Artists.
 - Up Next: The Right. The Next Right makes The Post.
 - For Superdelegates, ‘Huge Relief’ at End of Primary Season. They’ve been hounded via phone, email, telegram, carrier pigeon, smoke signal, waterboarding…
 - Sudden Disconnect Over Social Networking Deal. Via Hank Dearden.
 - Lessons and Ideas to Replicate from Campaign ’08.
 - Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends ‘Left Behind’.
 - New Blogging Network Editor Hopes To Transform Social Networking To Social Action. Josh Levy, celebrity blogger.
 - Republicans Use Democrats to Attack Obama.
 - The general election map. C.f. other electoral college vote maps via PoliticalWire.
 - Obama Money Machine Grows.
 - Do Journalists Care About Blogs?
 - The Internet Comes to Maine.
 - Let’s Just Admit Slatecard is the Republican ActBlue.
 - Newspapers Mull Future amid Digital Media Boom.
 - ‘Greenest’ Adults Are Also Influencers, Most Tech-Savvy.
 - RNC Facebook Group Membership Drive Inadvertently Propels DNC Facebook Group Membership.
 - Internet, Hotlines Help Earthquake Survivors Find Relatives.
 - Billionaire Entrepreneur Slipped Drugs To Tech Execs, Feds Allege. Once again, we’re going to the wrong parties.
 - At the Tip of Iran’s Spear. Imagining the strategic calculations of the head of the Quds Force.
 - Tupac Backs Barack! A political endorsement from beyond the grave…Biggie must be a McCain man.
 - The strange allure of making your own fonts. Amateur typography: tragic obsession or something truly dangerous?
 - News headlines from an alternate universe. Where do we sign up? Suggested by my old Austin buddy Eric Cifreo.
 
– cpd
