Quick Hits

A quick roundup of stories related to digital politics and online advocacy.

Quick Hits — January 30, 2007

My-head-is-still-on-the-slopes catch-up edition. Drudge, global warming shut down Senate site. Website fall down, go boom. A new online Capitol Hill news site launches, and Wonkette sneers sneeringly. Your PCs forecast climate future. Distributed...

Quick Hits — January 18, 2007

14 Million Online Political Activists, according to Pew Report. Micah Sifry breaks the story, the San Jose Mercury News (among many others) covers it and the Pew site has the numbers. A word of caution before we get too excited — TV is still...

Quick Hits — January 12, 2007

’08 race: the first (screen) shots. Henry Copeland looks at early blog advertising by presidential candidates. MarketingSherpa’s 2007 Wisdom Report. According to the site, it covers: “email campaign segmentation tests and results...

Quick Hits — January 8, 2007

Schlock and Awe: What Saddam Hussein’s Execution Video Means. From ReelPopBlog: “Absent politics, the video is brutal. With politics, the video is brutally strategic.” Five Prerequisites for Blogging Success. From ProBlogger —...

Quick Hits — December 20, 2006

I’m-trapped-in-East-Texas-for-a-week edition. Lessons from the Warner Campaign. Jerome Armstrong talks with Personal Democracy Forum — well worth checking out. Wall Street Journal whaps bloggers upside the head (apparently, most popular...

Quick Hits — December 18, 2006

Extra-long weekend catch-up edition. EVERYBODY’S writing about Time’s choice of you (i.e., Web 2.0, participatory media, etc.) as Man of the Year. Thanks for noticing, MSM guys. Welcome to the party. Advocacy Tools You Need, Like a Fish...

Quick Hits — December 15, 2006

Top YouTube Videos. Todd at The Bivings Report collects several of the best and (unlike the AP) actually shows them to us. Lonelygirl meets Macaca on a Lazy Sunday afternoon… DeLay’s Missteps Still Haunting GOP. Check out some of the...

Quick Hits — December 14, 2006

Web 2.0 edition. Jaxtr Widget Lets Social Networkers Chat On Real Live Phones. TechCrunch writes up a new widget that connects your phone to your social networking profile and lets people call you through the site without you (or the caller) having...

Quick Hits — December 11, 2006

Adults Just Don’t Get the Instant Message. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes up a poll (not the first) that shows that younger folks are using IM as a replacement for email. Response #1: Whither email advocacy? Response #2: Damn kids, get...