Conservatives move on Digg

Although dominated by liberals, conservatives today announced a major development in taking on Digg

clipped from www.techpresident.com Digging Conservatism: Some of the digs against Digg, the community-ranking site, is that it's biased against women and weighted in favor of liberals. On the latter, enter #diggcons, an effort under the banner of the conservative #dontgo movement that aims to aggregate the weight of the right-leaning to promote their preferred content on not only Digg, but StumbleUpon as well. Twitter messages marked with the diggcons hashtag will sound the alarm on stories that could use a thumbs up. Will even the amassed voting power of online conservatives be enough to lift conservative content out of the ever-churning cauldron of Digg content? We'll see. But along with Top Conservatives on Twitter, it's another smart attempt to conquer social media from the right -- efforts largely unmatched on the left.

Talk to Ford about auto bailout on twitter

Lots of talk about the auto bailout, and whether the Congress or President will give them cash. This guy has engaged on Ford Exec himself and is hosting a public exchange on twitter this morning

clipped from kirkpete.blogspot.com Lobbying in Plain Sight: The Auto Bailout on Twitter Update: Operation Ford Motor now has its own hash tag, #OFM, if you want to follow the action today. I don't know what if anything will come of this, but it's fascinating -- beginning at about 10:30 a.m. today, Scott Monty, the head of social media for Ford (yes, there is such a function now), began a Twitter conversation with Michael P. Leahy, head of a new Twitter-powered conservative group called Top Conservatives on Twitter (#TCOT). Even if you don't have a Twitter account, I believe you should be able to follow this search link, which currently shows the "Tweet" below as the first result:

My first 10 twitter friends

My main twitter profile Daltonsbriefs, is now followed by approximately 2100 people, I'm hoping to hit 3,000 sometime in January. Last night though, I went back to look at who were my first 10 twitter friends. I'm listing them here.

Most of them, as you'll note, were from the real estate world and were very early adopters on Active Rain, where I first met them all. At 2100 followers I'm way down the list, when matched up against these guys. I guess I can say I'm proud to be part of this group, even though many of them have long since passed me and moved on to speaking at conventions and team blogs.

1. ResPres / Jeff Turner
2. Ines / Ines Hegedus-Garcia
3. pchaney / Paul Chaney
4. AndyKaufman / Andy Kaufman
5. jburslem / Joel Burslem
6. trulia / Rudy Bachraty
7. SeattleCondo / Ben Kakimoto
8. pkitano / pat kitano
9. TBoard / Teresa Boardman
10. JonWashburn / Jonathan Washburn

I created a reason, a legitimate non spam reason, to reach out to each of them tonite just to say hi. Oh by the way, there were two others on this list, and they have been removed. When I look at my follows list, I remove those that really don't interest me, or have never really engaged with me.

To all my real estate industry twitter and Active Rain friends - Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and 2009 will be a whole lot better!

Calling all RNC Members to Twitter

Only 7 so far, and a list of over 200 conservatives on twitter, well worth the read

clipped from topconservativesontwitter.blogspot.com Top Conservatives on Twitter First SEVEN RNC Members are on Twitter. Only 161 more to go ! Our mission, is to get all 168 RNC members on Twitter by January 28, 2009, the day they will be voting for the new RNC Chair! (as of 7:15 pm CST Dec 2) (1) @jamesdickey 4,438 Delegate to RNC from Dallas, Texas (Denton County) (2) @johnculberson 4,016 Tech savvy Republican member of Congress. Definitely not a Brain Dead Luddite. (3) @brooksbayne 3,159 (4) @lesliecarbone 2,858 Blogger and occasional Weekly Standard contributor (5) @PatrickRuffini 2,053 The conservative tech geek behind Rebuild the Party. (6) @daltonsbriefs 1,730 Local Indiana editor for Red County Blogs. (7) @michaelpleahy 1,665 Author of Rebuilding the Republican Party Despite the Brain Dead Luddites Who Run It. Tennessee editor for Red County Blogs.