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E-xemplar (Shameless Self-Promotion Class): Codepink's Fasting Directory

Directories are one of our newer tools, and not that widely understood or adopted. In a nutshell, they allow you to offer your site visitors the ability to query parts of your database for certain types of information. (You control who they search for and how.)

So we were thrilled to see our resident lightning rods Codepink use it to support their now-ongoing TroopsHomeFast.

 

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06:00 PM Jul 14, 2006 - 3 comments permalink

Marchons, Marchons

Happy Bastille Day.

 

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10:30 AM Jul 14, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Net Neutrality "Senate Map"

In a neat marriage of topicality for this blog, SaveTheInternet has published a map of where the votes in the Senate break down on net neutrality.  Click on your state, find where your Senators stand, get their office phone and read from a script.

[offer does not apply to the District of Columbia, but that's a separate blog] 

Looks like custom Ajax, pulling declared stances and suggested phone scripts from their own database and the Senators' photos from a Capwiz resource library.  Very nice page.

 

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09:30 AM Jul 12, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Fungible Identities

On the Internets, and other media.  (Via Deadspin)

 

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04:30 PM Jul 11, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Socialized Press Releases for the Information Age

Lots of catching up to do from my fortnight's blessed disconnectedness, but let's start with something I'd hoped to get to even before I left.

Press releases.

Those queer, stilted, familiars of the public relations guild's black arts, dispatched in their hundreds to broadcasters and scribes in a mad scrabble (or faint prayer) for the opportunity to issue the rebuttal quote or pitch a feature story.

Here's a recent one from my former shop, offered because it's a fine and typical example that I happen to know is written by a pro. The press release proceeds as a sort of elaborate mating ritual, contact information first, lede out front, a few factual nuggets and a couple of ready-to-lift canned quotes, entombed in the weird form of a compact quasi-news story whose content journos will hack away in seizing the marrow.

 

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11:30 AM Jul 11, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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