Clearing the Cache: When You Wish Life Had Captions
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, July 7 2009
- The White House Flickr stream gets annotated with funnies: "Every once in a while, President Obama just straight up forgets who the @#$% Robert Gibbs is."
- A defense of one-click activism, through the lens of the American Revolution: "From top to bottom, they created organization that allowed supporters to thrive in any role or level they chose."
- As if further proof was needed, Social Security numbers are really dumb online authenticators.
- Sarah Palin's online army backs her decision to march forward in a different direction. But is she confusing sound and fury with the basics of politics -- organizing, ground game, a base to build upon?
- FEMA tackles social media.
- You have developed your Internet savvy and technological know-how for this one moment: help game The Hill's hot staffers list.
- Keeping privacy alive when it comes to online support groups.
- In case you didn't know, GAO is on Twitter: @usgao for reports and testimony, and @usgaolegal for legal decisions and opinions.
- FCC posts its overview of the national broadband plan on their horrendous, exclusionary website. Did we mention that FCC.gov has considerable room for improvement?
- A full one-fifth of all Twitter accounts are empty placeholders, and other Twitter stats. (Thanks Shaun Dakin)
(With Micah Sifry)

