Wrapping up September’s remaining stories in one elegant package.
- Update: How a handful of liberal bloggers are bringing down the Obama presidency. E.pol sez, if bloggers are that important, I want a raise. C.f. White House scorecard: MSNBC up, bloggers down, and a more critical take on Daou’s thesis from War Room.
- Update: Gladwell, Sifry Stir Debate on Strength of Tea Party and Web Activism Fueling It.
- Update: Blogger Receives Iran’s Longest-Ever Prison Sentence For Online Activities.
- Update: Obama, unsubscribe.
- Update: TechCrunch Scooped Up By AOL.
- Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted. Malcolm Gladwell weighs in, via Shaun Dakin.
- Tea Party vs Netroots; Rs vs Ds: Whose Online Base is Bigger? And a response: Personal Hypocrisy.
- The Face of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg opens up. Jose Antonio Vargas scores a major coup. C.f. one particularly thoughtful response.
- Pols Soft on Web. “Perhaps the biggest factor holding back digital spending is political consultants’ love affair with TV.”
- How Useful is Social Media to Nonprofits? C.f. Social Media ROI: The Metrics and Strategies and 40 hashtags for social good .
- California Political Campaign Sees Lift by Combining TV, Web Ads.
- Targeted Mobile Political Attack Ads a Precursor to Commercial Campaigns, as Rep. Bachmann Treats Minnesota Fairgoers to Mobile Attack Ads. C.f. Introducing a Google Mobile Surge.
- Facebook Places Already Having An Impact.
- What the Gmail Priority Inbox Means for Marketers, via Jon Pincus, and What Does Gmail’s Priority Inbox Mean for Political Emails? C.f. Gmail and Hotmail Change How Email is Delivered and How It May Affect Your Organization, and What the Gmail priority box means for email marketers, via Ivan Boothe.
- E-mail Drives Consumer Purchases. Does Anything Else Matter? But, E-mail and Social Media: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
- Your Social Media Strategy May Not Be A Strategy.
- Why the Great GRP Debate Means Even More to Online Politicos. Note quotes from friends-of-e.politics Rena Shapiro and Michael Bassik.
- Do Tweets win seats? Micro-blogging and politics.
- Mobile Lobby Asks FEC to Okay Donation-by-Text.
- Dems’ iPhone App Now Equips Field Organizers with Canvassing Tools. But, What Ever Happened to Obama’s Army?
- Twitter: Making Early Voting Easier in DC.
- State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P.
- (The Labour Party’s website is) Behind the Times.
- New Trends in Online Ad Formats.
- CQ Relaunches Dot Com.
- Good Use of An E-mail List.
- From the recent Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin: “Palin is the only politician whose tweets are regularly reported as news by TV networks. She is the only one who has been able to significantly change the course of debate on a major national issue (health-care reform) with a single Facebook posting (in which she accused the Obama administration, falsely, of wanting to set up a “death panel”).” Plus, “After the 2008 presidential campaign, when she returned briefly to the governor’s office, Palin became so obsessed with responding to criticism from bloggers that it sometimes paralyzed her administration.”
- Candidates with more Facebook fans win big on Tuesday. Potentially bogus trend alert: note that the actual numbers are pretty small.
- Washington Post Writer Falls For Fake Congressman Twitter Account, via Matt DeLuca.
- Issues vague on Democratic websites, and Why Is the AFL-CIO’s Web Site So Bad?
- The Disappearing Christine O’Donnell Website.
- Social media play bigger role in state campaigns.
- Kashmir: Taking the Revolution Online.
- Aid groups using cellphones to reach the world’s poor, and For the poor, cellphones can offer lifeline..
- Nonprofits Take a Dive into Mobile Apps. Plus, 7 Ways for Nonprofits to Use Mobile Phones to Rake in Cash.
- The Tea Party: “the first true new media movement”? C.f. How Tea Party Organizes Without Leaders.
- The male dominance of online British politics.
- Log Cabin Republicans rapid-response fundraising on Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell.
- Is the Right behind technologically? Erick Erickson thinks so. But, find your favorite GOP social media enthusiast through this handy Google Map.
- How Web Video Is Igniting a Massive Cycle of Innovation. C.f. Republicans Invest in Video: A Political Web Video Q&A.
- Lazio Uses Google ‘Search Stories’ in Contest.
- Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform.
- Why we believe propaganda.
- Lady Gaga v Harry Reid; Twitter wins.
- The Great Internet Freedom Fraud: How Haystack endangered the Iranian dissidents it was supposed to protect.C.f. Who’s at Fault for Hyping Haystack?
- The Tweet Heard ‘Round Ireland.
- Blue State Digital Wants You to Use Its Toolbox.
- Chart: Who’s Paying for All Those (Political) Ads?
- New Twitter: The Ultimate Hub For Online Video Referrals?
- Can video games be art?
- Tracking the Tea Party, and Its Trackers.
- Apple now building 2M iPads per month to meet demand.
- Jim Hoft: Dumbest Man on the Internet?
- Palin Looks Like a Candidate in New Video.
- Meghan McCain Blocks D.C. Gossip Columnist (on Twitter).
- Howard Fineman Is From The Fucking Future.
- DNC launches new website to attack Boehner. We’re going to BoehnerLand!
- Ana Marie Cox Addresses Her Shocking Decline in Twitter Followers! C.f. Twitter Bug Really Really Worries The White House Press Corps.
- Poll: 1 In 5 Americans Believe Obama Is A Cactus.
- And finally, introducing The Jesus Toaster, via Brad Terrell.
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– cpd