Quick Hits

A quick roundup of stories related to digital politics and online advocacy.

Quick Hits — February 16, 2007

Fox’s Answer to The Daily Show Ends Up on YouTube. Sounds like it may be good, if you don’t expect your comedy shows to contain actual humor. Reelpopblog psychically predicts Slate review, offers own pre-evisceration. Majority of...

Quick Hits — February 11, 2007

Spotlight: Hit Back Hard. Another reminder of the need for speed in the web world. “Rapid response” means just that. Campaigns brace for Web video blitz. Online video goes local, singing “Kansas City, here I come” (“Of...

Quick Hits — February 8, 2007

Now, 100% zombie-free! (Apparently, and sadly, zombie humor is a bit too obscure for primetime.) IPDI interviews Jeff Mascott of the Adfero Group on 2006 as a breakthrough year in politics and technology, the rise of user-generated content, and...

Quick Hits — February 2, 2007

Maine considers restrictions on text messaging between lawmakers and lobbyists, no doubt in an effort to save the poor lobbyists’ thumbs. Anti-Blog Hysteria In The State Capitols. Bloggers apparently hunger for human brains (mmmmmm, delicious...

Quick Hits — January 30, 2007

My-head-is-still-on-the-slopes catch-up edition. Drudge, global warming shut down Senate site. Website fall down, go boom. A new online Capitol Hill news site launches, and Wonkette sneers sneeringly. Your PCs forecast climate future. Distributed...

Quick Hits — January 18, 2007

14 Million Online Political Activists, according to Pew Report. Micah Sifry breaks the story, the San Jose Mercury News (among many others) covers it and the Pew site has the numbers. A word of caution before we get too excited — TV is still...

Quick Hits — January 12, 2007

’08 race: the first (screen) shots. Henry Copeland looks at early blog advertising by presidential candidates. MarketingSherpa’s 2007 Wisdom Report. According to the site, it covers: “email campaign segmentation tests and results...

Quick Hits — January 8, 2007

Schlock and Awe: What Saddam Hussein’s Execution Video Means. From ReelPopBlog: “Absent politics, the video is brutal. With politics, the video is brutally strategic.” Five Prerequisites for Blogging Success. From ProBlogger —...

Quick Hits — December 20, 2006

I’m-trapped-in-East-Texas-for-a-week edition. Lessons from the Warner Campaign. Jerome Armstrong talks with Personal Democracy Forum — well worth checking out. Wall Street Journal whaps bloggers upside the head (apparently, most popular...