Weed! Cats! Craigslist sex at the Beck rally! What could it be but A Very Special pre-holiday beach-reading edition of Quick Hits.
- Glenn Beck launches conservative news site TheBlaze.com, and With “The Blaze,” Beck Promises Journalism Inspired by You.
- Next On Greenpeace’s Enemies List: Facebook.
- NYTimes.com Gets A Facebook Makeover.
- Twitter Reality: The Republicans Are Crushing the Democrats When it Comes to Tweeting. Reality Reality asks, does it matter?
- W.H. Builds Message Wall for the Troops.
- Republican Digital Shop Takes Foursquare-Style Social Games to Politics.
- Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. Implications for political/advocacy email?
- Older Adults Nearly Double (Their) Social Media Presence. Damn oldsters, get off my lawn! C.f. Seniors And Online Social Nets.
- The ABCs of Social Media ROI & Measurements, and Understanding social-media ROI in the nonprofit space.
- North Korea Joins Facebook, Making the Online Pitch for Pyongyang. But, North Korea’s Newly Launched Twitter Account Banned by South Korea.
- Slurp140 — @Fenty2010 vs @GrayforMayor.
- Obama assist crashes Jerry Brown’s website, via PoliticalWire.
- Real-Time Search and the Glenn Beck News Effect.
- Foursquare Experiences Record Signups After Launch of Facebook Places, as the service Surpasses 3 Million User Registrations. Still, Technology Aside, Most People Still Decline to Be Located, as a Huge Facebook Places Backlash Spreads Through Status Updates, accompanied by a New Wave Of Spam Spreading On Facebook Through Chat & Messages. C.f. Comparing Geo-location Tools (Including Facebook Places).
- 56 Million Americans Are Playing Social Games.
- Social media finding way into local (Canadian) election campaign. Note quote from Epolitics.com contributor Kayle Hatt.
- Contribute To Charities As You Shop And Share With Endorse For A Cause. Plus, Foursquare and MTV Team up for First-Ever Cause-Related Badge: STD Testing and How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech.
- After the Click: Give Your Landing Pages Some Love.
- Florida leads the way online. Don’t worry, kids: global warming will take care of them soon enough.
- True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash.
- Tweeting Senators Have Many Friends, as Tweeting Senators Draw Followers. Backlash ensues, starting with Mrs. Grassley: My hubby’s a tweetaholic. C.f. 4 Things Every Voter Should Know About Elected Officials’ Social Media Habits.
- AK-Sen: Miller compares Murkowski to prostitute, via Twitter.
- A Children’s Treasury of Facebook Comments About ‘the Mosk’.
- Rand Paul money bomb falls short.
- Web browsing from Android phones grows 400% at the expense of Apple, Will Android Trump Facebook As The “Social Operating System”?, and USA TODAY shaking up staff in ‘radical’ overhaul to refocus on mobile. C.f. Why Smartphone Adoption May Not Be as Big as You Think. Also beware The Fragmented Future Of Mobile Ad Networks.
- How to Engage Donors with Mobile, and The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile.
- Online Ads Making Their Way into Xbox 360, Digital Books. Plus, with Live TV Is For Old People: Time Shifting And Online Make Up Nearly Half Of All Viewing, some Industry Insiders Say Online Video Advertising Is Reaching A “Frenzy Point”. Political advertisers, take note: Heating up the 2010 midterm elections with (YouTube) In-Stream Ads.
- The March Of Twitter: Analysis of How And Where Twitter Spread.
- Why Marketers Often Get it Wrong with Facebook, and 10 Facebook Advertising Tips For Brilliant Marketers.
- MySpace Now Letting Users Syndicate Status Updates to Facebook.
- Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign (what a buzzkill). But, Google Accepts Marijuana Ads Rejected By Facebook (turns out that money’s green, too). Free at last: Censorship of Pro-Pot Group Campaign Leads to Free Ads.
- Arabic Takes a Clear Growth Lead Among Facebook’s Top Languages in August 2010, as Facebook’s Spanish-Language Market Marked by Fragmentation, but Promises Opportunity.
- Facebook Becomes More Important to Red Cross Fundraising, Disaster Relief Efforts, plus Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief. C.f. Wanted for Pakistan: A Turksourcing Plugin for Crisis Mapping.
- The digital Panopticon in action, again: Woman Placed In Police Protection After Thousands Protest Against Her On Facebook. Here kitty kitty! C.f. The Ballad of Cat Bin Lady: The Internet’s Latest Viral Villain, and Cat bin lady meets her match. But even as a Video of Girl Throwing Puppies in a River Causes Social Media Uproar, Thousands Of Facebook Users Fight To Rescue Dogs and a Train-Hopping Cat Reunited With Owner via Twitter.
- YouTube: What do you think about human rights (and your rights) online?.
- Arcade Fire’s Experimental New Video Shows What’s Possible with HTML5. (Though we had trouble getting it to work in our office.)
- How To: Respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand.
- Three (Colombian) Teens Murdered After Appearing on Facebook “Kill List”.
- ShareThis: Facebook dominating social sharing; email fading.
- Hot or Not: E-mail Marketing vs. Social-Media Marketing. Hint: email still looks pretty good.
- Pressure Mounts On EA Over Role Of Taliban In (First-Person Shooter) Game, British Defense Secretary Calls For Ban.
- Gowalla and Political Campaigns: A Progressive Social Media Step from Both Sides of the Aisle.
- Ann Coulter on WorldNetDaily: ‘They’re a bunch of fake Christians’.
- Hate Blogger Convicted of Threats After Three Trials.
- Lobbying days and fly-ins (Grassroots lobbying methods – Part 5).
- Twitter & Facebook: Fraternal Twins.
- Getting Results With Video: Bryan Weaver for Ward One.
- Why Social Media Monitoring Tools Are About to Get Smarter.
- Tools for Transparency: Scribd — making documents accessible.
- Supporter Videos: An Underutilized Campaign Tool.
- A Better Way to Map Arlington Cemetary.
- To study the Tea Party movement, future scholars will sift through the collected tweets of Sarah Palin.
- To prevent attacks, will the Pentagon have to cut itself off from the online world?
- In Burma, RSS Can Smell Like Freedom. C.f. Israelis, Palestinians Expand Mideast Debate to Wikipedia and Egypt’s Wired Activists Redefine Victory.
- Brazilian Politician José Serra Accidentally Drops F-Bomb, Gets Over 1 Million YouTube Hits.
- Explore Hip Hop History in Google Maps.
- Mesmerizing Time-Lapse Video Shows Every Asteroid Discovered Since 1980. Better after a few of those pot-legalization ads.
- And finally: Did You ‘Restore Honor’ (Have Secret Gay Sex) at GlennBeckPalooza? Darn you Craigslist for using the promise of prurient pleasure to pry patriots from the path of purity!
– cpd