Update: Bloggers, DIY Filmmakers Capture S.F. Olympic Protest. F.B.I.: Lieberman 2006 Crashed Its Own Site. “Cyber-attack” was friendly fire episode. Queen Rania of Jordan opens communication with the West via Youtube. The Invisible...
A Pulitzer ain’t half-bad, my friend: online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas joined a distinguished list of Post reporters hit with Pulitzer prizes this week. He’s one of several reporters cited for work on last year’s...
How The World Works noticed an interesting little eddy in the endless flow of globalization today: popular Chinese search engine Baidu is featuring a cartoon Barack Obama and donkey combo fishing for voters(?) on its front page this month:...
This just in from Bergen County, New Jersey: online politics has hit town and the locals are taking to it with gusto, like a guido to gold chains. Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and blogs all make an appearance as North Jersey Record reporter Matthew...
Some may disagree, but I have truly found the best YouTube video ever — it’s funny, it’s clever, it’s cute, it has a good song, it’s well edited, it’s short, and it anesthetizes or distracts small children...
Hi y’all, I gave a social media marketing training in New York on Monday, and I developed something for it that you might be able to use. The training was for the web staff of the local chapters of a large national nonprofit, and we covered...
Cross-posted on techPresident Okay, it’s not exactly a robot zombie army, but it might have a similar effect on the world of political action — an email arrived today from the Obama campaign about a training program they’re starting...
Wired’s picked up on a clever use of machinima (the “filming” of video in computer games or virtual worlds) by the folks at Bill Maher’s HBO show to nail Hillary Clinton over her exaggeration of the danger involved in her...
Trust in Peers Trumps the “A-List,” Study Finds. Definite implications for political marketing. Act Blue’s Record Take. They’re raking it in for candidates. Online Call Tools and the 2008 Campaign. Detroit Mayor Is Charged...
Check out this brilliant bit of promotion and branding from conservative site NewsMax, which has been around since the first internet/politics boom in the 90s: This ad appeared in Monday’s Marketing Vox News, which is an email newsletter aimed...