[Update: My dad just reminded me that he had essentially the same idea as MapLight…about 11 years ago. Always ahead of your time, eh? Wait until I tell these kids about your open-source machine tool project — that’ll blow some minds...
Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death. The end of milblogging? Just as YouTube lines up to be the next threat to military discipline. But wait! There’s more…U.S. Military Uses YouTube to Get Its Story Out (nice outflanking...
An article posted yesterday in Micropersuasion has caught my eye — Google and other homepage/portal providers are desperate to get users to customize their personal pages (which Google just renamed “iGoogle”), yet most users are...
[Update: More media coverage and some Obama damage control below.] Micah Sifry posted a fascinating analysis last night of the Obama campaign’s takeover of a formerly volunteer-run MySpace site for the candidate, complete with dueling...
In a move with implications for any organization or campaign using the site for video hosting, YouTube will begin experimenting with video advertising as soon as this summer, according to Red Herring: The video-sharing site that was acquired by...
This Saturday, I happened to catch an episode of NPR’s On The Media, an excellent show that I’m going to have to start following as a podcast (it’s on at 4 pm on Saturdays here in DC, a time when I’m usually out on a bike or...
Eight Easy Steps To Internet Superstardom. Video tutorials from Jack Black and others — why not try a little humour to get your political points across? ABCNews.com Relaunches with Citizen Journalism. Also with new emphasis on video (and dreams...
Ailea Sneller over at Frogloop has written up a nice summary of the presentation on cell phones and advocacy that Katrin Verclass gave at Alan Rosenblatt’s most recent Internet Advocacy Roundtable. A sample: Unlike telemarketing, mobile...
Kevin Reid with IDI wrote in yesterday to highlight an ongoing series of Second Life events that the International Fund for Animal Welfare is holding to try to mobilize public opinion against Arctic seal hunting. I’m normally a bit of a Second...
A new study from the Pew Center for the Internet and Public Life finds that 36% of online Americans use Wikipedia, roughly half the time getting to the site from a search engine link. Better-educated folks and broadband users were more likely to...