Link Roundup 4/21/2007

From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet

The New York Times takes a look at the Twitter phenomemon. Does this mean it is over?

Participation on Web 2.0 sites weak: Study

A very low percentage who visits sites like YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia actually upload or edit their own content....

Covering Politics in CyberSpace

I spent the day at a conference on “Covering Politics in Cyberspace” put on by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. Basically, the idea of the conference was to get a group of around twenty five journalists together to discuss how they will be covering the 2008 election cycle. The concept for first day (today) was to bring in experts on online politics and political bloggers to talk to reporters about what they should be looking for....

And so it continues…

The “Are Republicans Behind Online?” conversation produced another handful of posts today. David All started things back up with a column in the Politico. Mike Turk weighed in and then weighed in again with the thinking behind shutting down the RNC’s Team Leader program (which I helped build). Patrick Ruffini put in his two cents as did James Joyner (who coincidentally I watched on a panel today in LA.)

I think this topic is pretty well surrounded but have one miniscule point to make....

Another One for the Bad Pitch Blog

Following is the first paragraph or so of an email pitch I just got from an employee at one of the five largest PR firms in the world. I have liberally edited the email to protect the identity of the client, PR firm and specific person responsible. Changed stuff is in caps....

Five Brothers Blog and Digg This

Update: The issue with the Digg buttons I describe below has been fixed on the Romney blog (it was fixed within two hours of my post). I could be wrong, but I suspect that means the campaign is watching blogs pretty closely, unlike the McCain folks who took weeks to fix a similar problem. ...