- The Militant Group Behind the Kenya Mall Attack Is Live-Tweeting the Massacre. Talk about information warfare.
- GOP fears fundraising disaster, partic on the Senate side. But SOME folks on the Right are raising money hand over fist: The Movement Strikes Back and Mike Lee fundraises off anti-Obamacare push. Also note that E. W. Jackson’s running his own voter-contact program in Virginia.
- Senate Chairwoman Pauses Hearing to Respond to BuzzFeed Reporter’s Tweet.
- NYC Mayoral Race Shows “Shareable Graphics Are…The New Black” in Digital Campaigning, as For NYC Candidates and Independent Groups, Online Advertising is Part of the Mix. C.f. #Fromentum in the NYC mayoral race.
- You Won’t BELIEVE How “UpWorthIt” Parodies Upworthy’s Socially-Conscious Linkbait. Hah.
- Who[m] Do Members of Congress Follow on Twitter?. Evidence of an opinion/information bubble. C.f. Congressional Blog Review: Mark Takano’s Tumblr.
- Republican National Committee Hires Senior Facebook Engineer As Chief Technology Officer, as Republicans launch their own ’50 state strategy’ and the GOP’s building digital voter ID network to top Obama’s.
- GOP’s new tech strategy leads to Silicon Valley in quest to ‘leapfrog’ Democrats. C.f. Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a “30 Front War”. But note The GOP’s Huge, Growing Modernity Gap, which includes technology.
- McDonnell apologizes (via Twitter), repays loans.
- The Rise of the New New Left. Damn kids and demographic changes. But, will The Internet generation learn to let go (of our digitally documented salacious pasts)? We’ll see; budding politicos had better hope so.
- The Liberal Party of Australia: Designed for Victory.
- 4 Things to Watch For With ActionNetwork.org, The New Online Organizing Platform.
- Latest GOP Meme: Obama Can’t Be Trusted On Syria Because…#Benghazi.
- Wendy Davis raised 1.2 million after filibuster. Watch this race.
- Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has strong showing in Moscow mayoral race, despite loss. Note his use of online advertising.
- Chinese official corruption outed online — in pictures from jilted lovers. ‘”People’s awareness is becoming stronger,” she added. “People won’t believe what they’re told as easily. In the era of the Internet, the government cannot hide things from people.” C.f. Chinese Netizens Get Revenge On Official Who Arrested 16-Year-Old Blogger.
- Congress Sees Dramatic Drop in Direct Mail, Digital Solutions on the Rise, as Hackers post email addresses, passwords of Capitol Hill staffers.
- Time for Progressives to Get Serious About Social.
- Internet Advocacy Roundtable shows how to use Sunlight Foundation data via API.
- Coming Out Then and Now: The Impact of Technology.
- DCCC Taking Sides in 2014 Primaries.
- U.S. disrupts al-Qaeda’s online magazine.
- Big Data Is Watching You: Finding Likely Voters in Unlikely Places.
- When campaigning backfires: Did a pro-Obama canvass produce McCain supporters?
- Evolution of the Voter File: From handwritten lists to online databases, how voter files became the ‘big data’ of modern campaigns.
- Google’s Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP/a>. Spyin’ old-school style. Also, let’s How the NSA Is Using Cell Phone Data to Drone Civilians (In Pakistan). C.f. Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 Are Up 5,000 Percent on Amazon.
- Covert Malaysian Campaign Touched A Wide Range Of American Media.
- The Cost of Engagement: Politics and Participatory Practices in the U.S. Liberty Movement, via Matt Stempeck.
- Miss New York crowned Miss America: Why are racist tweets the story? C.f. Americans Call First Indian American Miss America Winner a Terrorist and Don’t Blame Reddit for Smearing Sunil Tripathi. Blame “Retweets Aren’t Endorsements.”.
- Hereditary Traits: Bigoted taunts by the children of GOP honchos have everything to do with politics.
- Social media “blacks out” for Trayvon Martin.
- The ABCs of Social Analytics.
- The Role of Facebook Hashtags in your Marketing Efforts [INFOGRAPHIC].
- Hipster watch: Will killer hipster tweeters save Obamacare? Or, Did Hipster Tech Really Save the Obama Campaign?
- The utility of the internet sarcasm detector.
- Iran’s president urges government on Facebook, part of Iran’s Social Media Offensive. Meanwhile, Syria posts first lady Asma al-Assad’s good deeds on Instagram.
- Where do 700,000 displaced Syrians go? An interactive map.
- Final Tally: Americans Were 12 Times More Interested in Miley Cyrus Than Syria.
- Email Is Crushing Twitter, Facebook for Selling Stuff Online, even though some see The Rise Of Social Commerce — How Tweets, Pins And Likes Are Driving Sales, Online And Offline [CHARTS].
- Paul Krugman Isn’t on Twitter Because He Can’t Control His Inner Demons, and Times Scribe Avoids Twitter Because People Are Mean.
- Alysa Milano Makes Online Sex Tape…For Syria.
- Politico expands to NY, deep analysis ensues.
- Hey: Now you can mass email people just like Obama.
- Data inquiry leads to improved social media strategy.
- Mick Jagger, William Shatner and How to Create Content That Rocks.
- (Obama alumni firm) Precision offers Obama ‘expertise’ but not data.
- America Rising: Not your father’s research firm.
- Dunkin’ Donuts Is Launching the First TV Ad Made Entirely From Vine, via Beth Becker.
- Councilwoman’s Campaign Site Promotes Parody Twitter Account. Oopsie.
- For Lessons on How to do ePolitics, You’ve Got to Go Back to the Beginning. A look at the rise of MoveOn.
- What You Should Think, Straight From Politico.
- Online News Hasn’t Killed Newspapers—It’s the Death of Advertising.
- A little issue-testing-by-email on the Right. Weigel’s not impressed by the motivation..
- Congressman Steve Cohen Forced to Explain Another Tweet.
- The 10 Most Influential Software Programs Ever.
- Mobile Email Series: Where Will They Land? (Part 5 of 5). Check out the whole series.
- 5 nonprofits using Instagram video to promote campaigns.
- Robertson Wants ‘Vomit’ Button on Facebook.
- Social Advocacy & Politics: Bill Clinton vs. Hillary Clinton on Twitter.
- The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds.
- Yahoo Gives 1 More Reason to Remove Inactive Emails.
- Facebook News Feed Changed Everything.
- Netroots Nation 2013 wrap-up: New tools, and a whole lotta climate fighters.
- “I’m Here for Business Meetings with No Clothes.” Rubbernecking at Air Berlin’s spectacular social media meltdown.
- Campaign spotting: Netizens spark thousands to protest, Instagram contest engages teens.
- Google’s plans to bring internet to the developing world via high-altitude balloon, as Soyuz launches broadband beacon for developing world.
- How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled.
- Martha Stewart Roadkill Mashups Put a Fly in the Design-Porn Soup.
- Rich Kids Of The Internet: Inside The Astounding Troll-Hole That Is Elite Daily. New Epolitics.com editorial policy: all cocaine, b*tches and expensive cars, all the time.
- Facebook May Have Saved Thousands of Lives by Tweaking One Little Feature.
- Is Google Wrecking Our Memory? Nope. It’s much, much weirder than that..
- Are Obama’s Speeches Written for Twitter or Are Good Speeches (inherently) Tweetable? “To analyze the ‘tweetablity’ of a speech Yahoo News created a tool that scans blocks of text for stand-alone phrases that are Twitter friendly.”
- The Brown Alumni Listserv Is Having an Epic Reply-All Fail. There but by the grace of god….
- “Ancient” U.S. Weapon Makes a Surprise Reappearance in Syria. M40 105 mm recoilless anti-tank gun shows triumph of simplicity.
- Atlas Obscura: WWII Sea Forts (once) Taken Over by Pirate Radio.
- Our Divided Nation in One Set of Amazon Reviews (of Reza Aslan’s book on Jesus).
- Finally, it’s The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About PETA.
Thank you for reading this far.
– cpd