- What Kills a Social Media Campaign. Case studies of bitter failure.
- Amateur charge infuriates blogosphere. “Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys … are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity” (e.politics is proud to be doing its part).
- Growing Internet role in election. An interview with techPresident’s Andrew Rasiej.
- RNC fires phone-bank staffers. The dark side of technological change.
- Dark Side, Part Two: The internet is destroying porn!
- Dark Side, Part Three: Google Earth works for terrorists too. That’s the hassle with tools — they don’t care who uses them.
- Dark Side, Part Four: Teen Tests Internet’s Lewd Track Record. On the downsides of Internet “fame.” Via Adrants.
- And now, the Bright Side: YouTube Serves as Venezuelan Anti-Censorship Tool. Video’s not just for cute kittens.
- A Little Bit Quieter Now. Blogosphere loses a couple of voices.
- Which would be just fine with the Chinese government: Chinese online reporter arrested.
- Building Your Brand In Facebook.
- Howard Kurtz is building his personal Facebook brand, much to his daughter’s dismay.
- Twitterizing Blogs. I just think it’s fun to say “twitter.”
- San Leandro politics move to Web. A look at the influence of local bloggers.
- Fred Goes “Tech Heavy.” What we might expect if Thompson dives in.
- Clinton on CNN Only, McCain on Conservative Sites and Networks in April. A look at the candidates’ early online advertising, via Eric Frenchman.
- Looking under the hood at Google. Go behind the scenes as Googlers tweak the search algorithm. Seth Godin sez, don’t try to game Google — stick to organic search growth.
- Google and Salesforce Team Up, but Donna Bogatin’s skeptical.
- Obama’s Annoying New Ring Tone. Ruby Sinreich answers the call.
- Joe Biden Gives Lousy YouTube.
- White House Director of Internet Communications heads to the PR world. Note to self: get high-paying corporate job one of these days, shoot self in head shortly thereafter.
- I might need more bullets: Mike Tyson Goes to Bollywood. Thanks to Burt Edwards for making my afternoon complete.
– cpd