Via The nation’s Facbeook users focus on Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Mary Burke @ JS All Politics Blog.
New Media
Jefferson County GOP Chairman’s Facebook Racism Exposed
A former Trek Bicycle executive alleging Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke was fired from the firm has a Facebook page…
Redbook, Bluebook
Via Facebook fault lines among Walker and Burke supporters @ JS Wisconsin Voter Blog.
Racist trolls infest police websites
Criminal arrest reports are often followed by snarky, insulting and downright racist comments about those who have been taken into…
Middlemen move in
Via “The great promise of YouTube was its ability to cut out Hollywood-style intermediaries…” @ Althouse.
How to avoid having your nude photos hacked
Tweeted Ricky Gervais, after a big naked-celebrity security leak at iCloud. Via “Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude…
Sheriff Clarke Bans Facebook Comment
My ban from the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page is now the third such ban handed down on me…
Hotel’s bad-review fee simply a bad idea
Via “This is what happens when you think you are more intelligent than the Internet.” @ Althouse.
He’ll find a way
Via So Does Cincinnati-Based Scripps Family Need Right Wisconsin, Charlie Sykes? @ The Political Environment.
Bigfooting
Google must fend off websites that game its ranking system, but did Metafilter get caught in the crossfire? Sad! I…
Splashy new ventures
Via Whatever happened to Vox and FiveThirtyEight? @ Althouse.
WISGOP & WisDems in battle of the small
Via “Microsites” pop up in governor’s race @ JS All Politics Blog.
Lewinsky scandal, if 2014
Via You Won’t Believe These Mockups of How Websites Today Would Have Reported the Monica Lewinsky Scandal @ Althouse.
Wikipedia editor gets prominent obit
Via A long NYT obituary for someone whose accomplishment lay in the field of editing Wikipedia @ Althouse.
Drudge warns about the U.N.
Via Is Drudge amusing you or scaring you with his “UN: No One Will Be Spared”? @ Althouse.
WISGOP Seeks Online Dominance
To further strengthen our outreach, we’ve been training Party activists and volunteers across Wisconsin on how we can spread our…
A troll returns
Loathsome as ever. Via He’s back @ Cognitive Dissidence.
Some employers and schools are demanding passwords to social media
But Rep. Melissa Sargent (D-Madison) and Rep. Garey Bies (R-Sister Bay) are proposing a ban on those demands. Via Lawmakers…
Althouse explains the benefits of the NYT paywall
It’s easier to link to some paywalls (NYT) over others (WashPo). Via Why I pay to get through the paywall…
Silver moves on
Prognosticating blogger Nate Silver leaves NYT for ESPN. Via Nate Silver Leaves The New York Times @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.
Drudge runs ‘The top 12 “Big Sis” banners
Sec. Napolitano may be leaving Homeland Security, but she’ll not be forgotten. [It’s hard to argue with Althouse’s pick for…
So, whose Facebook is it, really?
Extremists fight to ban opposing points of view on Facebook. Via Via Knot Their Facebook @ Cognitive Dissidence.
Waukesha Patch tries its hand at wit
Not quite Bartlett’s, though, Via Man’s Ear Bitten Off; Mike Tyson is Not a Suspect @ Waukesha Patch.
So why did the WISGOP move to evict the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from UW-Madison?
Matthew Rothschild speculates: The Republican legislators were retaliating against the center because of a blockbuster story by Bill Lueders, its…
Some Aaron Rodgers Twitter fans upset that he tweeted spoiler for Game of Thrones
But then, if they didn’t want to hear about the show, what were they doing on Twitter afterward? Via Aaron…
The Joint Finance Committee moves against the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism were bad on principle and as politics
The GOP’s budget motion was a vindictive attack on a journalistic operation on ideological grounds. Does that sound slightly familiar?…
WisDems Chair Mike Tate may be telling others that he’s being picked on
But if he is, then it’s because he thinks that blogger Ed Garvey’s question about how much Tate makes as…
Packers 4th in NFL…
…for use of Facebook. Via Packers rank fourth among NFL in use of Facebook @ Journal Sentinel.