September 2008
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All Politicking is Local: How the Obama Campaign... →
(via azspot)
Part One, The Ground Game: Open Source vs Closed, sets up the big themes. Part Two, Local Area Networks: How the Obama Campaign Works on the Ground, looks at a group of volunteers in small-town North Carolina. Part Three: Connecting the Campaign: How the Democrats Built Their Network, looks at the plumbing and wiring behind the scenes. Part Four is on Going Mobile: Texting and...
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“Mr. McCain, who came of age in a chain-of-command culture, showed once again...”
– On Bailout, Candidates Were Surely Themselves: NYTimes.com
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“Strache, who has been associated with neo-Nazi militants who deny the Holocaust,...”
– Right wing Freedom party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, saw his party’s vote soar to 18% in the Austrian election. Extreme right emerges as strong force in Austria: The Guardian.
Fortunately Austria and Australia are different countries, as I explained to my cab driver in Chicago.
Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and... →
“If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.”
– Eric Shinseki 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1999-2003
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“Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just...”
– Time’s Person of the Year: You via this amazing video.
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Australian Twitter usage is up more than 500%... →
“Once upon a time, a man on the hunt for a wife would set great store by a woman...”
– Giles Coren
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“Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a...”
– Times Online
“Most users of social networks have a lot of disposable time, but not much...”
– LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman in The Economist
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“If your company was facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that could forever...”
– Get the Most Out of Your Ad Agency
How could the economic crisis affect art? →
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“…she was one who continually felt that she was on the brink of order in...”
– Elizabeth Jane Howard, Odd Girl Out
“I looked deep into Putin’s eyes and I saw a K, a G, and a B”
– John McCain is getting more and more Frank Ramsay from Crimson Tide every day.
robot-heart:
elizabethanne:
McCain can’t hide his emotions very well… I’ve seen that ‘i don’t agree with you’ smirk of his almost every time Obama has spoken. Now, I don’t hide my emotions very well either, but I’m a female in her mid-20s. When you’re old as dirt and running for president you should be able to NOT smirk when someone is disagreeing with you. It’s annoying me mostly because it...
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Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008 →
Yup, I still hate that word “blogosphere.” Interesting report.
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Brunch is saved! Oh, also democracy. →
jeanhannah:(via suitep) Hurrah! Things are looking up! I have embarrassingly huge nervousness about the debate.
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Conservative party unveils web overhaul with first... →
“Nobody becomes a casual heroin user. It is too much like hard work. It is the...”
– Heroin is hard work. You don’t drift into it | Martin Samuel: Times Online
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“I can’t believe they still don’t know about the debate. Don’t they know they’re...”
– Seb (via jeanhannah) That is exactly my concern. We are having people over. McCain is so selfish.
“We advise people to try not to scream, because bystanders have no idea how to...”
– Jo Walker, spokeswoman for a personal safety campaign group. Note to self, think of a clear call to action when summoning help in an emergency. The Guardian
