Tag Archives: TechPresident

Let The Wild Chuck Hagel Rumpus Begin! (Twitter Edition)

The Chuckleheads have branched out from TV spots attacking the Secretary of Defense nominee to social media attacking the Secretary of Defense nominee with this Promoted Tweet (tip o’ the pixel to techPresident): There’s also, apparently, this Web ad: This all … Continue reading

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Guns N’ Exposes

TechPresident presents the gun barrel of targeted exposure: The Guns and Gun Data Debate, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the End of Privacy Public equals online. That mantra has been repeated often around here. Public equals online. Make … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Warren Had No Pinterest In Photo-Sharing

This is so Liz Warren (via techPresident): Worries Over Copyright Infringement Kept Warren’s Senate Campaign Off Pinterest Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren’s 2012 campaign stayed away from the social image-sharing platform Pinterest because the campaign’s new media director feared that the platform … Continue reading

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Let The Whatever-Billion-Dollar Rumpus Begin! (Poetry And Pros Edition)

Michael Scherer waxes lyrical at Time’s Swampland blog: AFP Brings Poetry To Political Boob Tube Politicians are supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But political advertising this cycle has been, for the most part, a bunch of … Continue reading

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The Factory Is Facebook. The Product Being Manufactured Is You.

(With apologies to Adbusters) Dispatches from the Facebook/Marketing/Privacy vortex. From MediaPost: Facebook Rolls Out Promoted Posts, New Page Tools Facebook is taking steps to boost ad spending directly through brand pages, while also giving marketers new tools for managing their presence on … Continue reading

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Jay Carney (Barker) Flacks For White House

As part of the Obama Media Machine 2.0, the White House has reinstated its First Questions program (according to techPresident), “during which Press Secretary Jay Carney will answer on [sic] video questions posted on social media.” Representative sample:   The … Continue reading

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Google: Ron Paul Is Super PACman

GOP Super PACs have spent over $30 million on this year’s presidential primary, most of it on television advertising. But the big spenders on TV aren’t necessarily the biggest players on YouTube. From Google Politics & Elections (via techPresident): Are … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Warren Gets Decisive

So Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren (D-I Got Your $336.99 Right Here) has finally decided which charity incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-I Got Your $336.99 Right Here) should contribute to for violating their People’s Pledge to keep independent political groups out … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Warren Can’t Make Up Her Mind

The hardworking staff noted yesterday that U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Got Any Cash on You?) owed $336.99 to the charity of Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Gotcha!) choice for this violation of their People’s Pledge to keep third-party money out of their electoral … Continue reading

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So Is This The “Twitter Election” Or Not?

From our We Don’t Have a Clue desk: Lots of conflicting stories about social media’s influence on the 2012 presidential bakeoff. Consider these headlines collected by the hardworking staff in just in the past week. From Time’s Swampland blog: Campaign … Continue reading

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