Enough politics for one week! Let’s wrap up a tumultuous few days with something a little more enlightening than the average blog post — a Very Serious Look at the secret Pentagon history of using cats in warfare. Careful with that...
I was online last night when the first hints of President Obama’s big announcement began to slip out, so of course I checked into Twitter to see what the chatter was. And as a few minutes’ wait stretched into over an hour, I kept looking...
Earlier this weekend Eli Pariser linked to one of the funniest damn things I’ve seen in a while: a brilliant parody of erstwhile Republican Congressmember Jane Corwin’s campaign website. JaneCorwin.ORG (the fake) mimics JaneCorwin.COM...
Facebook may rule the social networking roost these days, but this past week I saw a couple of reminders of how fleeting that status can be. First, here’s an email that arrived from Friendster, once a dominant player in the online social...
Well, “bribery” of a sort: over the past couple of days, two different organizations have tried an interesting tack to build their Facebook followings, promising to make a donation to a cause if people “like” their Facebook...
Howdy folks! Sorry for the brief publishing hiatus, but other parts of life needed tending-to for a few weeks. Plus, it doesn’t hurt to take the occasional break from the writing, painful as it can be to restart. But now I’m looking at a...
These days, corporate brands and nonprofits alike are diving into Facebook marketing — for a small indicator, look at how many TV commercials now drive potential customers to a Facebook page rather than to a company’s own website (ten...
If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out Sandi Fox’s article on the new advocacy platform PopVox, published on Epolitics.com yesterday. I’m fascinated by this new tool, which I think has some crucial advantages over related ideas...
Now blooming: the first Quick Hits of spring. Obama reelection announcement will be a digital extravaganza (Update: it was). Also note the possibility of a big Dem independent expenditure group forming. Update: C.f. What Obama’s re-election...
Mergers and acquisitions? Why not — all the cool kids are doing it. So let’s go after the ghost of AOL, now firmly wed to the web’s most impressive self-reinventor, Arianna Huffington. Let me check my pockets…hmmmm, five...