Clearing the Cache: #HillaryAfrica
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, August 6 2009
- That's the official trip hashtag. Here she's in Nairobi, being "greeted by a gentleman from African Heritage wearing a costume from Cameroon."
- With the Marines cracking down on social networks, the chair of the Joint Chief of Staff says that he, at least, isn't giving up Twitter: "Obviously we need to find right balance between security and transparency. We are working on that. But am I still going to tweet? You bet."
- The FTC considers chucking privacy statements no one reads.
- Rep. Keith Ellison is tweeting his trip to Sudan, but is taking a break today. "[O]ff to Darfur. Won't have time to twitter for a while."
- The FCC calls its staff to raise 20,000 pounds of food as part of Obama's United We Serve campaign.
- The Recovery team releases a data dictionary.
- Aneesh Chopra goes west.
- Do the netroots matter?
- The Weekly Standard's Mary Katharine Ham challenges the "smoking gun" memo floating about the web that some see as the proof of a townhall disrupter conspiracy.
- Text in your nomination for CREDO Mobile and Netroots Nation's blogger awards. Winners get a BlackBerry Curve and a year of service.
- And YouTube fleshes out Call to Action overlays.