Tuesday must-reads

• GigaOm spoke to Obama for America CTO Harper Reed about how the online campaign was conducted. Reed highlighted the use of Amazon Web Services, developing methods to stay online even as cloud services crashed, and looking at how people used technology. "The president’s technology team knew ... that voters in urban areas where Obama was counting on high voter turnout were more likely to use a mobile phone rather than a laptop as their primary means of internet access. They’re also more likely to use Android devices than iOS devices, as are many potential swing voters who generally don’t care too much about technology. So, Reed said, the team designed apps to run on multiple operating systems and used responsive design to ensure apps ran well on whatever devices voters were using."

• A mesh network is helping people in Red Hook, still without power after Hurricane Sandy, connect to the Internet.

• A Montreal hackathon brought the city's usual geeky suspects together, but with a new twist — asking them to focus their efforts on tools to highlight and fight government corruption.

• The scandal in the U.S. military appeared to widen late last night, as reports emerged that the FBI had uncovered 20,000 and 30,000 documents, mainly emails, of "potentially inappropriate" communications between Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and Jill Kelley, the woman whose contact with the FBI about threatening emails she had been receiving started an investigation that ended David Petraeus' tenure at the CIA, the Washington Post reported. The New York Times reported: "The [defense official], who briefed reporters on Mr. Panetta’s plane, said that 'there is the distinct possibility'' that the e-mails were connected to an ongoing F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell."

• Earlier, the Associated Press had reported in more detail how David Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell, had interacted over e-mail:

  Petraeus and Broadwell apparently used a trick, known to terrorists and teen-agers alike, to conceal their email traffic.One of the law enforcement officials said they did not transmit all of their communications as emails from one's inbox to the other's inbox. Rather, they composed some emails in a Gmail account and instead of transmitting them, left them in a draft folder or in an electronic "dropbox." Then the other person could log onto the same account and read the draft emails there. This avoids creating an email trail which is easier to trace.

Around the web

• Gawker highlighted another blogger's discovery that an anonymous Wikipedia edit to Paula Broadwell's page after her Daily Show appearance may have been a reference to the affair.

• The University of Denver briefly removed YouTube video of Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell discussing the Benghazi attacks at a university event.

• The New York Times reported on how the Obama campaign took an innovative approach to TV advertising, focusing on cable, reruns and somwhat more obscure TV programming.

• ICYMI: Nate Silver analyzed the accuracy of various polling operations and found that those conducted online, such as Google Consumer Surveys, IPSOS/Reuters, and YouGov, were among the most accurate. Business Insider profiled the three-person Public Policy Polling operation. Director Tom Jensen told BI that its polls benefited from its simple screening process: "We have a very simple likely voter screen. 'If you don't plan to vote in this fall's election, hang up now.' What we find is that if you're someone who's not willing to take the time to answer a telephone poll, you probably aren't going to vote. But if you are willing to take the time to answer a telephone poll, you probably are going to vote. So it's a much less-complicated voter screen than somebody like Gallup or Rasmussen has, but I think that it's a better barometer of the electorate." The Washington Post noted that according to exit polls, "fully one-in-three Election Day voters nationally said they do not have land-line telephones, up from 20 percent four years ago and 7 percent eight years ago."

• Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel confirmed via Twitter that he plans to stay on for Obama's second term, Nextgov reported.

• Nieman Lab reviewed traffic for online news sites on Election Night.

• Google shared some statistics from the 2012 campaign with an emphasis on its four-screen philosophy:

  "Total US Mobile searches related to finding a voting location increased by 164% from Monday to Tuesday. This trend was even more pronounced in battleground states."

  Total US Mobile searches related to finding a voting location increased by 164% from Monday to Tuesday. This trend was even more pronounced in battleground states."

  Google also claims that nine of the top 11 U.S. Senate races who spent more online with Google won on Tuesday.

• ICYMI: In the days before the election and beyond, a letter by a 10-year-old girl who has two gay fathers to President Obama praising his support for marriage equality, and the President's response, have gone viral.

• TechCrunch reported from a VetsinTech hackathon that was held in San Francisco over the weekend.

• Demand Progress has launched a petition in response to a news report that ousted Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), a supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act, could be in the running for Secretary of State.

• A Change.org petition is asking Target to not open in the evening on Thanksgiving.

• Popular Facebook page and blog Humans of New York is partnering with Tumblr on an Indiegogo fundraiser for Hurricane Sandy victims. Both Indiegogo and Paypal are waiving their fees, accordign to the blog post.

• OccupySMS is helping connect aid and volunteer efforts in response to the hurricane via text message. Another web application tracks stranded elderly residents.

• Great Neck Patch reported that a Long Island radio station produced a Gangnam-style parody video called LIPA Style to criticize the slow response of the Long Island Power Authority.

• The New York Times summarized new tools available for disaster aid.

• The New York Stock Exchange had to suspend trading on over 200 stocks due to a technical glitch.

• The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart wrote that the election of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) is bringing "Occupy to Congress."

• Pandodaily profiled the Counterpoint, a new online site to showcase informed political arguments.

• Data from Twitter and Google suggests that migraines peak during the work week.

• The College of William and Mary has received a federal grant to lead a new center that will track and map the disbursement of foreign aid.

• An audit suggests that the State Department may still be vulnerable to Wikileaks-style breaches.

• The Boston Globe wrote about crowdfunding sites, focusing on Citizinvestor and other efforts involved in Boston-based projects.

• The Ad Council is running online ads promoting Boostup.org, a campaign to reduce the high school drop-out rate.

• Many seniors are resisting the upcoming switch to electronic social security payments.

International

• Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee is on the run and wanted for murder charges, according to various news reports.

• France has asked the International Telecommunication Union to take action against satellite interference coming from Iranian territory.

• Two Kuwaiti royals have been arrested for expressing political views on Twitter.

• Fast Company wrote about how a group of architects and graphic designers are using the online infographic style to visualize the issue of Palestinian displacement.

• The BBC recently explored the case of an Indian man arrested for posting a tweet.

• A man in Britain was arrested for posting a picture online of a burning poppy on Remembrance Sunday, according to news reports.

• Canadian wireless carriers have agreed to set up a database to track stolen phones, with data also being fed to an international database.

• A Pirate Bay co-founder in Sweden is now suspected of "attempted aggravated fraud," Ars Technica reported.

• German automobile company Daimler is testing a system of connectivity between vehicles in Frankfurt, although there are also concerns about outside manipulation and data protection.

• A group of European newspaper executives have expressed concern about the potential weakening of Irish copyright law.

• Google launched a new online exhibition commemorating the fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe.