Quick Hits - May 27th
- First, I've been remiss in reporting that Mike Lux at Open Left is calling on all netroots progressives to work their asses off to register high-school seniors before they graduate. He's even got some ideas on how it might work. - Open Left
- Hillary Rosen, former head of the RIAA (and proponent of taking students, seniors, and assorted toddlers to court over filesharing) is now running the political operation at Huffington Post. WTF? - Boing Boing
- The Democrats are proposing that we pay soldiers who are stop-lossed into service (aka back door draft). Sounds good to me. - Daily Kos
- Ben Adler gives us a brief history of Drinking Liberally on the week in which the organization celebrates its 5 year anniversary. Congrats to Justin and Matt for all their accomplishments. - The Politico
- Georgia10 takes a stab at outlining what Ted Kennedy means to the Millennial Generation. - Daily Kos
- What can we expect from Generation "Z" ? - Profy.com
- Google: Viacom's YouTube lawsuit threatens the net. - Mashable!
- And finally, Joe gives us a run-down on the state of the race and why it's OK that the Clinton campaign keeps chugging along. And congrats to Joe on scoring the AlterNet gig. I believe this means that all 3 people who served as Web/Communications Director at MFA are now in the employ of AlterNet.
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Thanks Mike! No employ as of
Thanks Mike! No employ as of yet. We're just testing the waters, but that is indeed serendipitous.
I guess that means
Well, I guess that means that everyone should go watch Joe's video on the site and drive up traffic.
Here's hoping they pick you up.