At this week’s Mobile Monday meeting, Alan Rosenblatt said something else that got me thinking: “Google destroyed message control.” He meant it specifically in the sense that he thinks Google has made obsolete the old rule that you...
YouTube, land of the free and home of the, well, really free. At least when it comes to political ads and any shred of responsibility for their content, acording to a segment on last night’s All Things Considered. Here’s an example from...
Last night’s first-ever Washington Mobile Monday covered the concept of digital graffiti, which consists basically of public screens that display the content of text messages sent to a particular shortcode or phone number. We played around...
Hi folks, I’m just back from a long weekend whitewater rafting in West Virginia — nothing like a solid dose of 55-degree water and sheer terror to focus the mind. A bunch of potential articles have piled up over the four days I’ve...
14th Colony looks at 13 reasons websites fail, ranging from stale content to a shattered budget to a complete lack of promotion. Good reading for anyone involved in an online project — behind each of these points lie a lot of broken dreams and...
Micah L. Sifry and Joshua Levy over at Personal Democracy Forum have an excellent compare-and-contrast piece about MyGOP and Partybuilder, new online organizing applications from the RNC and DNC. They look in detail at these new tools, primarily...
Two interesting strategy papers from the New Politics Institute that I’ve been meaning to write up for a while: Use Search and Engage the Blogs. I think they’re on target with their blogger relations advice, particularly their emphasis...
The latest of Alan Rosenblatt’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable discussions covers mobile advocacy, a popular topic this week. Contact the Internet Advocacy Center for more info. Advocacy in the Mobile Age The US is starting to catch up to the...
MobileActive has released a new strategy guide to using mbile phones to register voters, monitor elections and turn people out to the polls. And there’s more to come (from their press release): The MobileActive series of Strategy Guides is...
Quick Hits goes local! Candidates go online for young voters. Staten Island Advance looks at candidate MySpace profiles in races in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Social networking, den of sin and lair of iniquity: the article notes that “a...