The Public Vanishes - 0 views
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The public world has since become less urgent, more remote, and more tainted.
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face-to-face civic activity has dropped as groups with local chapters have given way to groups that count as members everyone who sends in a check in response to a direct-mail appeal.
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The important question is the share of income that Americans devote to charity; and by that measure, charitable giving has dropped sharply
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This difference in causal lineage between civic activity and other social activity seems critical to me, though Putnam seems to forget it when he summarizes his causal analysis a chapter later. There he bundles civic engagement together with sociability, and concludes that half of the decline in "social capital" is due to generational turnover, another quarter of it is due to television, and the remainder is the consequence of time pressures and money pressures and suburbanization.
YouTube Blog - 0 views
Cheyenne Cherry - 0 views
The Time Empire Strikes Back « Music Machinery - 0 views
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After just a couple of hours, the Message has decayed from “marblecake also the game” to “mablre caelakosteghamm”.
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I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed that 4chan couldn’t beat Ashton Kutcher to 1 million Twitter followers. They were foiled by the same technique: a Recaptcha on Twitter’s account creation (and, later, IP blocking/timeouts for new accounts). Until they can effectively crack or bypass Recaptcha, they’ll never be able to truly automate the process.
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| Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views
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YouTube - Barack, Burt and Ernie - 0 views
Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Mr. Greenwald’s McCain videos, most of which portray the senator as contradicting himself in different settings, have been viewed more than five million times — more than Mr. McCain’s own campaign videos have been downloaded on YouTube.
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Mr. Greenwald shows how technology has dispersed the power to shape campaign narratives, potentially upending the way American presidential campaigns are fought.
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But in the 2008 race, the first in which campaigns are feeling the full force of the changes wrought by the Web, the most attention-grabbing attacks are increasingly coming from people outside the political world. In some cases they are amateurs operating with nothing but passion, a computer and a YouTube account, in other cases sophisticated media types with more elaborate resources but no campaign experience.
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Rickrolled by Nancy Pelosi - TIME - 0 views
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Within 24 hours of posting, the Pelosi Rickroll video had been viewed nearly 60,000 times and garnered some 200 comments. Viewers were stunned ("Not gonna lie, that's totally surreal"), impressed ("My faith in House Democrats has just increased tenfold"), not impressed ("It is bad enough that she is in power, and now one of her interns has to Rick Roll me.") and outraged ("CURSE YOU PELOSI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
The YouTube Election | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - 0 views
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"What we tried to be on YouTube was the actual television show," says Joe Rospars, the Obama campaign's New Media director.
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That would explain why Obama first used his channel to respond to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy and later to break the news that he would forgo public financing for the general election.
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McCain had his "Bomb Iran" moment, which folks were reminded of well into the presidential debates. Obama had the Reverend Wright clips, which forced him to address his relationship with the preacher and eventually renounce the man.
The YouTube Election | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - 0 views
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"After that, I think the assumption was that this was going to be a gotcha medium," says Steve Grove, YouTube's news and politics editor.
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When the election ended, all YouTube videos mentioning Senator Obama had received a total of 1.9 billion views compared with Sen. John McCain's, which got 1.1 billion views.
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Obama's YouTube channel alone were watched the equivalent of 14.5 million hours, with McCain's channel racking up about 488,152 hours
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In YouTube era, seeking gaffes for later campaigns | HeraldTribune.com | Sarasota Flori... - 0 views
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In politics today, what Fitzgerald was witnessing was the hunt for the "macaca moment," which got its name after a now infamous off-the-cuff remark made by then U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Virginia, during his 2006 re-election campaign.
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So infamous are the gaffes, the GOP incorporated the phrase "macaca moment" into its official candidate manuals starting in 2007.
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