CivicActions

Techipedia has collected the some of the best posts on Web for Internet Marketing in 2007 and it's a mighty read. If you have any interest in social media, prepare to dive deep into this massive well of knowledge - with over 250 links...

High praise to Tamar for all the hard work put into this collection! We are grateful and will be reading far into 2008.

The rumor is that Google is planning to fight Facebook on the "social networking" front...

If the story is true, Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data and will be an attempt to connect the currently closed communities of Tribe.net, Bebo, Friendster, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn and more...

When I learned to ski, it was difficult to 'get' that when I wanted to slow down...I needed to lean down the hill. That was just plain scary.

In the early days of the net, it was similarly difficult to learn that to build bigger networks meant that I had to let go of more control. As a business person, I've had years of conditioning that 'control' was the biggest key to success. Perhaps it's the nature of the network protocol itself that rewards openness.

No longer are corporations or congressmen anonymous when white-washing their wikipedia pages.

Now with WikiScanner by Virgil, IP addresses are the public's smoking-gun and are creating public relations disasters, one company at a time.

Who's Working Where in '08?

Now you know! The techPresident StaffWiki is an open, editable guide to web staffers working on the 2008 presidential campaigns.

I just discovered this beautiful directory of websites for organizations and causes involved in online advocacy. 744 websites making a difference in the world (and growing)!

I just ran across this on digg: 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers - Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html, javascript, Ajax and widgets that you can use on on your website or blog.

Watch a real-time GoogleMaps+Flickr mash-up!

Boing Boing reports that the Participatory Culture Foundation, has just launched a new site, which is a one-stop guide to making your own Internet TV. Cleverly, it's called Make Internet TV,

The guide has step-by-step instructions for creating video feeds and soon will feature short videos from experienced internet video publishers.

Brave New Films shows us great example of using the user-generated web for political messaging.

After watching the short film, FOX ATTACKS: OBAMA, BNF asks users to sign the petition, and build a collectively harnessed database of Fox advertisers in local markets. Guess what the next step could be?