MoveOn: We Can’t Afford Bad Song Parodies

In yet another lesson about how a bad joke in front of one audience can trouble a larger public, MoveOn wants McCain to know bombing Iran is no laughing matter.
Music and bombing, it could be said, really only go well together when joined in criticism.
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Ugh. “Save NPR and PBS (again)â€

My dad just forwarded the following message to me:
Hi,
Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they’ve just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS—unbelievably, starting with programs like “Sesame Street.â€
Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its [...]

Social Software Works For Organizations Too

Ignore the politics for a moment. MoveOn’s CTO, Patrick Michael Kane, remarked that the organization’s membership to Flickr, the photo sharing site, has paid off: “Flickr has got to be the best $24.95 we’ve ever spent.â€
Why?
Micah Sifry explains in a story at AlterNet that MoveOn had been soliciting photos of events from members for some [...]