Liberal Bloggers Try To Google-bomb Republicans. Chris Bowers of MyDD enlists the blogosphere to try to ensure that the “proper” articles about Republican candidates show up high in search results. Suggested by a loyal reader (thanks...
At this week’s Mobile Monday meeting, Alan Rosenblatt said something else that got me thinking: “Google destroyed message control.” He meant it specifically in the sense that he thinks Google has made obsolete the old rule that you...
Hi folks, I’m just back from a long weekend whitewater rafting in West Virginia — nothing like a solid dose of 55-degree water and sheer terror to focus the mind. A bunch of potential articles have piled up over the four days I’ve...
Micah L. Sifry and Joshua Levy over at Personal Democracy Forum have an excellent compare-and-contrast piece about MyGOP and Partybuilder, new online organizing applications from the RNC and DNC. They look in detail at these new tools, primarily...
Quick Hits goes local! Candidates go online for young voters. Staten Island Advance looks at candidate MySpace profiles in races in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Social networking, den of sin and lair of iniquity: the article notes that “a...
‘Puppets’ Emerge as Internet’s Effective, and Deceptive, Salesmen. Beware the meat puppets! Excellent article by Frank Ahrens in the Post about astroturfing social networking sites, i.e., setting up fake profiles to sell a product...
Well, Capitol Advantage sure as hell stirred up the nest when their study of advocacy email deliverability rates hit the Post on Monday. In the days since, other vendors have been scrambling and practitioners have been debating, but it’s also...
Micropersuasion reports that search engine marketing company Spannerworks has put out a PDF guide to social media, covering blogs, podcasts, social networks, content communities and Second Life. It’s more of a quick overview than an in-depth...
Chris Cillizza and Jim VandeHei have a great article in today’s Post, “In Ohio, a Battle of Databases,” that looks in detail at how campaigns work with data behind the scenes to find voters, hit them with targeted messages and...
Few Watch Drug PSAs On YouTube. The Office of National Drug Control Policy finds that viral marketing is hard if your audience doesn’t want to take its medicine. Political advertisers take note — YouTubers will watch what THEY want to...