- Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death. The end of milblogging? Just as YouTube lines up to be the next threat to military discipline. But wait! There’s more…U.S. Military Uses YouTube to Get Its Story Out (nice outflanking maneuver, guys).
- Hillary “1984” ad creator gets a new job. Shocker — he’ll be doing campaign video.
- News Media Shell More Out for Ad Keywords. News outlets are bidding up terms hot in the zeitgeist.
- Referendum: The 2006 Midterm Congressional Elections. An academic’s look at the dynamics of the last election cycle (via the Moving Ideas newsletter).
- How Blogs Blow Things Out Of Proportion. WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Capitol Hill’s Constituent E-mail Culture and Future. An echo of the great email deliverability debate.
- Jerome Armstrong rounds up the Democratic candidates’ outreach efforts toward the netroots. Turns out, not so impressive (via TechPresident).
- Kung Fu Quip’s Matt Turk calls for open public access to debate video, is jujitsu-d by conservative colleagues.
- Use Email & Postal Mail to Create a Really Powerful One-Two Punch. Integration is a virtue.
- Best Practices: Power Up Your [Advocacy] Campaign. From M&R Strategic Services [PDF].
- Chinese journalists-for-hire use web to bypass media filters and expose corruption. Have travel reimbursement, will travel.
- Social networking spreads to cell phones. Is your phone trolling for dates behind your back? (via Micropersuasion).
- Digg Gets Dose of Social Media In Action. Site users revolt over removal of copy-protection-cracking code; discussion quickly goes nuclear. TechCrunch has more.
- Cutting-and-running to QubeTV is not a viable answer for conservatives. Their own sandbox just isn’t big enough.
- One Hit Too Many: New site for eHarmony rejects. Designed for people who are “gay, ‘unhealthy’ or even just obstreperous” — you guys should fit right in.
– cpd