Quick Hits returns! Get your fix of The Best Damn Internet Politics Reading List In The Known UniverseTM.
- UK Conservative party deletes archive of speeches from internet. Irony alert! “Decade’s worth of records is erased, including PM’s speech praising internet for making more information available.”
- Sometimes websites actually matter. HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs. Meanwhile Healthcare.gov’s Head Tech Guy is Out.
- Which leads us to headlines like: Why can’t Obama run the government as smoothly as his campaign? and The disastrous beginning to Obamacare reflects terribly on the president and his administration.
- Obama Shifts Focus in Bid for Momentum, Organizes Flurry of Events on the Economy and Immigration. What to do when your website doesn’t work.
- Bully Pulpit Interactive and NGP VAN Help Shape Democratic Victories, and Going Beyond the Boundaries of the Obama Digital Model in Virginia. C.f. earlier Epolitics.com and Politico coverage.
- How Twitter has changed politics — and political journalism.
- German Parties Eying Obama’s Web-Savvy Campaign. Somebody warn Poland.
- The Extreme Tilt of Chinese Internet Politics.
- Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts.
- The Evangelist. “Jim Gilliam of NationBuilder says his software will ‘democratize democracy.’ So why do many of his progressive friends consider him a traitor?”
- Reddit Moderators Apologize for Handling of “Bad Journalism” Ban. Bad = “what I don’t like.”
- Michael Hayden’s Off-The-Record Conversation Gets Live-Tweeted by Liberal Activist.
- Oops! Khanna campaign lists Twitter followers as fundraisers, including surprised reporter.
- Some Twitter Users Still Confused by the Whole Tweeting Thing.
- Twitter Will Not Replace Traditional Polling Anytime Soon.
- After Twitter #Fail, JPMorgan Calls Off Q. and A..
- Super-Lobbyists Tell All on Reddit.
- Competitions Aim to Define Congress’ Social-Media Successes.
- Are you ready for the oncoming storm that is mobile marketing? Take cover!!!
- Can Nonprofits Raise Money on Social Media?
- Back to Basics for a Successful Grassroots Campaign.
- Why Bitcoin Will Remain A Bit Player in Politics.
- Tricks & Treats for Nonprofits to Spark Action This Halloween. Put it in your goody bag for next year.
- Explaining Appalachia’s coal woes – in two charts and a map.
- Older Americans’ Internet Use Up vs. 2002, but Still Lags. “Overall, Internet use has risen from 69% in 2002 to 87% today.”
- How the NSA Halted My Rise as a Vermont Drug Lord. Tragedy.
- Via Twitter and Tumblr, Congressman Alan Grayson Suggests a Burning Cross for Tea Party Logo. Typical, low-key Grayson idea.
- And finally, Are These The Worst Sites On The Internet? Yes.
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– cpd