Do Conservative Bloggers Want to Counter Liberals?

We've wondered why liberal bloggers are more prominent and influential than their conservative counterparts here in the United States before, and I got an interesting insight into the nuanced answer last week.

Last Thursday afternoon, I attended a conservative blogger event hosted by The Washington Times.  The paper wanted to gather conservative bloggers to determine why liberals fare better and how conservatives can react....

Personal Democracy Forum: Live

Well I'm here at Pace University in NYC for the Personal Democracy Forum.  Larry Lessig just started things off with an interesting talk on copyright and the presidential campaign.

The gist of his speech: copyright absolutely has its place; that place isn't necessarily online or in the presidential campaigns....

Newspaper Website Research: The Next Generation

A lot has changed in the newspaper industry since we published our study of newspaper websites last summer.  In order to get a better picture of the changing landscape in the world of online news, we are going to publish a sequel to last year's study.  In our preparation for the research,...

Keywords Go First in Headlines, SEOs say

It is mini search engine optimization (SEO) for journalists lesson time!

News outlets want healthy traffic levels on their websites so that they can charge more for advertising.  In fact, The New York Observer's Michael Calderone quotes a former Forbes.com staffer as saying that their former workplace is "a page-view sweatshop "...

Hacking Digg for Ron Paul

Isn't it annoying when a "digger" on digg digs a web page and uses a horrible headline?  Well, I've found out how you can counter that by submitting the same URL with a small hack to get the same page on the site with a better headline.  I did this while trying to chime in on the digg fray around Republican 2008 US Presidential hopeful Ron Paul....