A little more politics and a little less digital than usual this week, but a ton of good reading nonetheless. Enjoy.
- Healthcare.Gov’s Flaws Found, Fixes Eyed: Site’s Design Opened Door to Bottleneck That Persists. Architecture problems suck. But, Did Shutdown Overshadow Failures in Obamacare Website? Defeat from the jaws.
- A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning. Note role of outside, independent groups, and c.f. Heritage Action in action.
- How DGA Got a 22% Clickthrough Rate on Their Facebook Action Posts [Update: link now fixed]. Reminder: run a governent shutdown-related action NOW!
- A good look at the demographics behind the Tea Party and the government shutdown. Also don’t miss Obamacare Foes Using Shutdown Echo South’s Nullifiers and The Debt Ceiling and the Conservative Bubble.
- 24 MoveOn polls show GOP could lose House in wake of shutdown, as Democrats Hold Double-Digit Lead on Generic Ballot.
- Building a Permanent Republican minority.
- Texas fundamentalists want to teach Garden of Eden in science class. That’ll help.
- Quién Manda: A Pinterest For Politician and Lobbyist Relations?
- Will digital kill the TV spot?
- The Benefits of Testing for Nonprofits.
- Biden calls park ranger: ‘I’m proud of you’, as a Boehner spokesman takes flak for calling House Dems ‘hostage takers’. We follow via Twitter.
- Rewards Outweigh Risks on Twitter (for politicians).
- The Time Jeff Bezos Went Thermonuclear on Diapers.com.
- 10 Bylines We Love for Superficial Reasons.
- Good times in the economic policy blogosphere: Truth in the Age of Niallism, Niall Ferguson Is Mad That Paul Krugman ‘Acolytes’ Like Me Are Mean To Him, and Joe Scarborough (and Niall Ferguson) versus Paul Krugman, again.
- Tips for your Election Day Stress Test.
- 5 Tips to Maximize Your Organization’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
- Fox News Has the Biggest Computers on Cable, for Facts and Stuff.
- How Tinder Solved Online Dating for Women, contradicting a few stereotypes in the process.
- And don’t miss: Q&A: The Women Who Write Dinosaur Erotica. Worth it for the book covers alone. Genius.
– cpd