Merry Christmas! The turkey’s still in the oven, but these links are ready to serve.
- Ari Melber: Obama for America 2.0?.
- Plane Crash Kills GOP Internet Consultant.
- A cell-phone modification for on-the-spot disease detection and monitoring, via @mobileactive.
- Obama, Emails, and Blagojevich.
- Future campaigns, take notice: Obama Spent Less than 50% on TV Ads.
- Obama Count(ed) on Text Messages to Drive Turnout of Youth, Blacks.
- Mobile Marketing in ’08: iPhone Was the Story.
- Social Media and the Federal Government: Perceived and Real Barriers and Potential Solutions.
- Center for American Progress “damage” control gone wrong: The Problem with Individual Disclaimers on Blog Posts, and Putting a CAP on Yglesias.
- GOP Leader John Boehner Solicits Stimulus-Skeptical Economists Over the Web.
- An interactive map of government bailouts, via @OpenCongress.
- The revolutionary potential of small-donor democracy, via @DavidAll.
- Todd Zeigler reviews Change.gov’s “Open For Questions:” “What we have here is very focused participatory democracy.”
- Bureaucrats for Change: Why Obama’s Inherited Web Team Gets It.
- The Obama Campaign’s Levels of Engagement. Hmmmmmm, sounds familiar…
- What We (Republicans) Can Learn From Howard Dean.
- YouTube Embeds — Invasion of the Search Boxes.
- Interest Groups, Bloggers Remind Obama They’re Watching.
- How and Where to Submit Online Press Releases for Maximum Search Engine Optimization Benefit, via Leslie Bradshaw.
- Micro Fundraising on Twitter: Red Kettle Campaign, Wellwishes cracks $2,000 mark. C.f. A Glimpse at the Future of Twitter Fundraising.
- A Global Online Community Is Created to Save Tigers.
- MySpace v. Facebook Advertising Showdown. Which Platform Is Better?
- Cutting through the noise on Capitol Hill.
- Don’t create fundraising that you like. Target your actual audience instead.
- HOW TO: Create Online Video That Works.
- Study: Almost 10% On Social Networks Via Mobile.
- The Sorry State of Blog Search Engines.
- Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner Wants to Tweet.
- Going from a Print Newsletter to Email: What to Leave Behind.
- Your Volunteers Make, Or Break, Web 2.0 Outreach — But You Have To Help Them Do It Right. C.f. Using Facebook for Your Nonprofit.
- Twitter Isn’t the Point — it’s the connection that matters.
- Why I’m Qwitting You On Twitter (I’m not the only one purging after a binge).
- Cool Flash Videos That Explain Social Media.
- New Insight Into Hill Cyber Hacking.
- Capitol Hill’s Favorite Words Of ’08.
- YouTube Unveils Unique View Counts. Now You Can Tell If Your Mom Is Your Only Fan.
- Pulling Off Houdini’s Trick — Obama’s election-day tracking system didn’t work entirely as planned.
- Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror Video.
- Inside Europe’s strangest ‘theme park’: A secret underground base offers a terrifyingly realistic reminder of Soviet occupation, via @igeldard.
- Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions.
- Barney Cam Returns. White House goes to the dogs again, wacka wacka wacka!
- Adult FriendFinder Files To Go Public. When all else fails, invest in sin.
– cpd