One of the pieces of tech advice I’ve heard over and over again in the past few months is that if political candidates want to engage younger voters they need to do it on their turf and in their language. This is good advice, and in many...
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These days it seems like celebrities are just drawn to advocacy issues. They act as UN ambassadors like Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman, they co-write books on genocide like Don Cheadle, and they start movements like Bono...
Development Seed is making the news again, and surprisingly it’s for the political ringtones that Eric cooked up back in October. Reporter Mariecar Mendoza from Knight Ridder Newspapers wrote a story on the business of selling personalized ringtones...
Political ringtones are back in the news, this time in the UK. This
article
discusses the origins of the political ringtone, pinpointing it back to
the "Hello Garci?" ringtone from the Phillipines, which was featured on
TXTPower.org. Then...
Going door to door and handing out leaflets are still powerful organizing strategies for unions, but often they’re not the cheapest or best way to reach workers. The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has found that reaching out to workers...
The AP reported yesterday that Arlo Guthrie is touring to benefit Katrina victims. Will he be selling any ringtones to help raise money? I don't think that "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job" would be the best choice, but clips of...
Is iTunes the next market place for ringtones? What if you use ringtones to broadcast your message and want to give them away, and not sell
them?
I am interested to see if it would help people to use ringtones by sending them via RSS to...
Well, just for good measure, as she steps out of the running this morning I thought I would slip in a new ringtone of Ms. Mires mashed up with “this poem sucks” by Mike Myers from the movie “So I Married an Axe Murderer”.
The voices on here...
As good as the “Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" ringtone was, I think we need something a little more timely this week.
Here is a big media take on Tom Delay, mashed up with “Bad Boys” by Inner Circle, or probably better know from the...