On this day, May 6th, 2008, the news brings to our attention Rosanna Arquette’s [Internet] viral appeal, how mobile banking will help to transform microfinance, how Serbs are using the Internet and 2008’s place as the year of the “cyber campaign,” and more.

• After a decade and a half of hype about being a “transformative agent for politics,” 2008 is already becoming known as the “Year of the Cyber Campaign.”
• Fox Business examines how mobile banking will transform microfinance and Eric Everson examines the examination [and more].
• Struggling? Facebook it.
• A gander at how folks in Mozambique and Serbia are using the Internet in times of national transition.
• Looking for a way to bring attention to your cause? Call Rosanna Arquette (and Ellen Page and Judd Apatow and maybe Jennifer Aniston), have them appear in a series of videos and encourage supporters to “spread them like wildfire.”
• And finally, in my day, music blogs were where snotty know-it-alls typed about their predicable infatuations with post-punk, no-wave, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, and ironic appreciations for the musical stylings of Frank Stallone — not bases for organizing concerts.

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