August 19th, 2008
Best news EVER.
Rachel Maddow is getting her own show.
Update: apparently her first show will be on Sept. 8th, my birthday! Happy birthday to me!
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August 19th, 2008
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A cool distributed advertising tool that I've been informally consulting for. Check it out.
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It's a business decision a lot need to make that may not be good for the web as a whole.
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Sweeet.
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The evidence piles up.
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Always love new stats.
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GigaOm allows readers to pull media in and organize around it.
August 18th, 2008
Barack Obama reads TPM.
Or at least some random staffer told Google he does for a list they made for a promotion to show off the Google Reader “sharing” service.
Also, so do John Dickerson, Mark Halperin, Arianna Huffington, Ruth Marcus, and Patrick Ruffini. Six out of ten ain’t bad at all.
August 17th, 2008
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A great example of what the Obama campaign, like the Dean campaign before it, is leaving in local political communities: new networks and tools to build on. A family friend matches his experience working for the Mayor of Seattle and matches it up with his experience working for Obama to get a transportation proposition passed.
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TiVo for magazines? That sounds like a TERRIBLE idea. But who knows…
August 15th, 2008
Community tools! Woo!
I just previewed the new community tools we’re working on for TPM over at TPMCafe. Go have a look. You know you’re curious.
August 15th, 2008
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Wow, 1.3 million page views for one story. Wow.
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Good piece on Obama's text message strategy.
August 14th, 2008
The next big user-generated political ad.
This is the best hit on McCain – brutal, truthful, serious – I’ve seen this cycle. I bet it has 500,000 views by the end of the week.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBfngOsvmA0=]
August 14th, 2008
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Brilliant.
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They’ll use laptops and internet connections! HOLY SHIT.
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Interesting post from Ethan Zuckerman on the AP’s ethnography for how people are consuming news. Will post at some point on the way I think TPM is actually satisfying these sometimes contradictory cravings (for both news snacks and news feasts, etc.).
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Courtney argues that independent youth orgs need cash to expand on what Obama is doing, rather than Obama just eating all the $ up.
August 13th, 2008
I wish I had three heads.
And I wish that they all had simultaneous emotions.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtv4bsLWvw]
August 13th, 2008
What made “Barack-roll” possible.
YouTube’s “CitizenTube” blog explains how an editor in Australia was able to find all the words to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” to create “Barack-roll”:
But did you know that the video wouldn’t have been possible without Google’s Election Video Search Gadget? Released in July to great reviews, the gadget allows you to type any word into a search engine and not just get a list of all of the political speeches that contain that word, but within each video, yellow markers allow you to jump to the relevant part of the speech where the word comes up.
“I’d had the idea for the video for a few months before [the gadget was released], but had no real way of tracking down all of the right words,” Hugh Atkins, the creator of “Barack Roll,” recently told Citizentube. “Being able to search for particular words and know when they appeared in a given clip made the whole project feasible.”
When toys exist, people use them.