I'm attending the Politics Online Conference today and tomorrow, and there was an interesting discussion during the opening session titled "Pervasive Politics" that Joe Mansour blogged about at TechRepublican.com. The session focused on how we as individuals will be bombarded with political information everywhere we go — not just online or through traditional media. ...
Continue ReadingLast week on Thursday, February 21, a 6.0 earthquake rocked northern Nevada and was felt in Idaho and Utah as well. In response, the Salt Lake Tribune wrote a traditional article about the event. However, its coverage didn't stop there.
The paper decided to ask readers who felt the quake to describe what they noticed and where they were at the time. ...
Continue ReadingSo while reaching the $21 billion plateau for the first time sounds great, the growth of internet ad revenues is also slowing down.
The data, collected by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, suggests revenues grew an estimated 25 percent last year, up from $16.9 billion in 2006. That’s a whole 10 percentage points lower than the previous year’s growth. ...
Continue ReadingI was excited to see Tina Fey host Saturday Night Live over the weekend since the episode basically marked the return of new scripted TV after the writers’ strike ended (further, it is helping me stave off the cravings for new 30 Rock). After laughing during most of the skits,...
Continue ReadingMy friend David Cohn has written an excellent post about social bookmarking sites. His aim is to coax journalists into using these sites to better research, report, and reach out to their audience. Although the post has a journalistic focus, it does an excellent job of explaining the differences between the user bases of several major sites that virtually anyone interested in social media will learn from....
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