1. They Gave Us The Beatles, We Gave Them Data.gov – Vivek Kundra introduces data.gov.uk on the white house blog. Since then, there has been also of buzz in the blogsphere about the data project.

2. What Organizing for America did right and wrong in its first election – Lydia Depillis goes over what she think Organizing For America did well during the Massachusetts special election as well as what they need to improve on. Unlike other blog posts and articles analyzing the race, this is one is fairly balanced.  I also wrote a post defending Coakley’s new media on E-Politics.com.

3. HOW TO: Set up a free online monitoring system -  This is  good guide for campaigns or organizations that are the just getting started in social media or have very tight budgets.

4. Movement in Gov contests across the country – Weekly update  about various political races around the country from Campaign Diaries.

5. Gillibrand Gets GOP Challenger – New York attorney Bruce Blakeman announced that he will be challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the Fall.  Since then, Harold Ford, Former Congressman for TN, has also been hinting that he may throw his hat in the race.

Honorable mentions

Internet 2009 in numbers – Pretty self explanatory fact sheet.  1.73 billion internet users worldwide – That’s a lot of people.

Will Citizens United v. FEC Change the 2010 Elections? – Stuart Rothenberg looks at how have the Citizens United v. FEC Change may affect the fall election cycle.  He concludes that the verdict is still out but Democratic operatives seem to be more worried the Republicans operatives

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This week the received a total of 450 clicks.  Ordered by most clicks received, last weeks top links are:

1. Internet in advocacy campaigns (VIDEO) – This is video of  Alan Rosenblatt speaking to students of American University about about the use of the internet in issue advocacy and political campaigns.  Topics discussed include 2008 presidential campaign, social networks,  and the flow of information online.  The video in 1hr 20 minutes long.  Two key takeaways: 1. Don’t focus on the tools, focus on the strategy.  2. Don’t empower, Enable!

2. How to effectively campaign online with web ads – Originally from Spot-on, the post shares a series of Do’s and Dont’s when it comes to online ads.  Key takeaways: 1. Start early; 2. Don’t skimp on creative; 3. Use the right tech specs; and 4. Consider advertising on non-traditional outlets.

3. 10 Things to watch for 2010 – This blog post looks at the some of the issues that the editors deem will make the news.  Obviously jobs, health care reform and the midterms elections make the list.  Also on the list is the role of new media in politics as the 2010 census.  Missing from the list is the War in Iraq and States’ budget deficit (See California, Virginia and Maryland..just to name a few).

4. Democrats control twice as many state legislatures as republicans – This maps shows which state legislatures are controlled by either party, which are split and which are non-partisan.  This map is very interesting if for no other reasons but the fact that if calls into questions whether or not the country as a whole is right of center.

5. 2010 Senate race ratings – Published by The Cook Political Report, this was last week senate race ratings.  Of course with Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) both retiring late last week, the ratings have obviously changed.

Honorable mentions:

Digital Politics: What Mattered in 2009 – Will all hype surrounding new media since the presidential election, what actually worked?.  Kate Kaye from ClickZ explores.  Her answer: Twitter and Online advertising.

Why open data matter for local authorities – Chris Taggart, of OpenlyLocal, makes the arguments that my making raw data available to public local govs  would save money as well as empower developer to make create apps work work on any number of platforms.  That  being said, Targgart does not provide  any actual figures to back up his argument.  Regardless,  It’s great to see the Gov 2.o movement going down to local level.

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Fundraising in a Recession – Some fundraising tips from Nancy Bocskor, a fundraiser and the founder of the Nancy Bocskor Company,  from a  the panel “Fundraising During a Recession” at Art of Political Campaigning conference.

OpenCongress Now Tracking Every Congressional Race Nationwide -  “a non-partisan, fully-referenced, open-source and crowd-sourced wiki project — now lists every candidate running in every U.S. Senate, House and governor’s race!”    I wish they would followed that up with a wiki that tracked state delegate races.  State legislature are just as important as House and Senate (or I’d like to think so).

New Media, New Cycle – Highlights from a Panel featuring Jonathan Karush, Mindy Finn, John Rowley also at the Art of Political Campaigning conference  They share some advice advice about websites and new media.

The Ten Best Ideas from BlogPotomac – I had the chance to attend BlogPotomac last Friday. I was considering recap but Jennifer Berk of Amplify Public Affairs has a great recap with links to several other recaps from attendees.  If you missed BlogPotomac, reading this post will almost as good at the real thing.

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