Rick Perry’s Budget Cuts Will Leave 49,000 Teachers Without A Job And 43,000 College Students Without Financial Aid | ThinkProgress – Maine Elections Chief Uses GOP List To Intimidate Student Voters And Encourage Them To Re-Register In Another State | ThinkProgress – Why Does Obama Keep Inviting Me To Dinner? | The New Republic – [...]

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Yesterday, Colin Delany, a fellow online politico who runs epolitics.com, posted an article entitled “This Election’s Not Going To Be Won in Hashtags.” The main thrust of the article can be summed up with this line: But let’s have a sense of proportion: a hashtag here and there is trivial compared with the grand sweep [...]

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New Book Explores How Millennials Shape American Life, Culture | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 26, 2011 | PBS FarmVille farmers might endorse presidential candidates in-game Some candidates jump on Facebook campaign ad tools How Political Forces Want to Use Facebook, Farmville for 2012 Election | GamePolitics Gamasutra – News – Univ Of Utah Game Seeks [...]

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Delicious, the service I used to create my link posts, has switched to new owners and it appears that it no longer will automatically generate the posts. I’ll try to keep up manually until I can come up with a better solution. This means there will be fewer links but more context around them. If [...]

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On April Fool’s Day 2010, I posted a fake story about Republicans using Farmville to reach out to young voters. It turns out, 17 months later, that story has become true. Imagine my surprise when I started seeing my Photoshopped RNC FarmVille screenshot on Games.com, GamaSutra, and GamePolitics. Unfortunately my other April Fool’s Day posts [...]

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Millennial Generation challenges religion in America – CSMonitor.com Bad Decade for Male College Grads « Mandel on Innovation and Growth People-to-People Diplomacy at Social Media Week in Colombia | U.S. Department of State Blog Online petition proposes ending software patents – The Hill's Hillicon Valley Open Access to Scholarly Publications at Princeton | Freedom to [...]

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Online Fundraising Debates Use Facebook & Twitter

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Buffett rule works for millennials, poll finds – InvestmentNews Net Neutrality Rules Published, Lawsuits Soon to Follow | Threat Level | Wired.com New Rules for Online Politics Could Be On the Horizon | techPresident The Case of Troy Davis, Online Activism, and Capital Punishment | techPresident Student Veterans and For-Profit Colleges: A Match Made in [...]

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Measuring the Twitter Revolution Effect Is Pretty Hard – Technology – The Atlantic Wire In Memory of Troy Davis | Being Wrong Calling on a Generation to Reimagine the Future, One Student at a Time | The White House Study: Twitter Played Pivotal Role In Arab Spring | TPM Idea Lab Views: The Myth of [...]

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Audience Boos Gay Soldier At GOP Debate, Santorum Promises To Reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

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