On this day, June 30th, 2008, the news brings to our attention a grassroots cry for help to Bob Barr, a reminder that “real change” happens offline, a look at what happens when you make the netroots angry, and much, much more.

• Sally Kohn, senior campaign strategist with the Center for Community Change, reminds us to log off once in a while.
• It looks like Bob Barr’s supporters would like to see him read Ms. Kohn’s article.
• With regard to environmental issues, Chinese Millennials are starting to make something happen.
• Don’t piss off the Netroots.
• Community organizes to help family (aw).
• With regard to mobs, does ’smart’ necessarily equate ‘wise’?
• Perhaps you’d like to know the (speculative) future of e-politics.
• And finally, want to win a campaign? Bring a camera

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On this day, June 18th, 2008, the news brings to our attention myths and realities about Chinese bloggers, a look at collective learning, Muslim activism online, the replacement of X-Gaming with flash mobbing (sort of), and much, much more.

• Bringing the business card exchange to the Internet.
• Best news title of the day goes to: “Campaign Obamizing VS Community Organizing?”
• More on Obama: The Illinois Senator “suggests that it takes a collective.”
• Have you partaken in the New Sport for the under 40 Generation?
• How are the Chinese blogging?
• Getting Your Collective Lean On 101
• Muslim activism online.
• And finally, Brits are going online to take on collective action.

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On this day, May 21th, 2008, the news brings to our attention a generation raised online, Hillary’s direct appeal to bloggers, The Onion’s Twitter question, Zimbabwean protest singers, the slowing of Chinese Internet censors, and more.

• What to do with all these terrorist videos on Google? Sen. Joe knows!
• Frontline featured “Growing Up Online” last night.
• Are you on “the list”?
• Hillary appeals directly to blogs.
• Estonia Cyber War (awesome comic/movie name?): One Year Later
• The Onion asks - What are we Twittering?
• Zimbabwean singer uses Internet radio to evade censorship.
• Earthquake slows censors, allows Chinese bloggers (temporary) free reign.
• And finally, rest assured — The Internet will fix pretty much everything.

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On this day, May 12th, 2008, the news brings to our attention Chinese organizers 2.0, social media against Obama, a righteous answer to YouTube, hasty (and frightening) repercussions are taken against Egyptian strike organizers and more.

• Feeling otherwise alone, mommies find a friend in online social networking.
• Human Rights watch claims that an activist who used Facebook to organize a general strike in Egypt was beaten and threatened with rape.
• A plan to grab the Olympic torch by way of flash mob was thwarted when the organizer was arrested by the Chinese government.
• Social media leveraged against Sen. Obama.
• Facebook quickly announces its answer to MySpace Data Availability.
• Obama channels Alinsky, who encouraged the importance of getting people invested into an issue by making any contribution possible, no matter how small it might be.
• Chinese dissenters are coordinating general strikes by way of Facebook and SMS.
• Do you find YouTube to be offensive due to its relative godlessness?
• And finally, if you don’t like a candidate, the Internet is a lovely place for a smear campaign (Bonus quiz: Which Democratic candidate refuses to put his hand on the Bible, preferring instead to put it on the Quran?)

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