TBG to Speak at the Magazine Publishers of America on February 6th

On February 6th, Erin and I will be giving a presenation at the Magazine Publishers of America offices in NYC on the use of the Internet by magazines.  We will talk about how aggressively magazines are adopting Web 2.0 features, review examples of best practices and speculate a bit about what will come next....

Huffington Post Launches Digg/Reddit Clone

I missed this last week, but apparently the Huffington Post has launched a Digg/Reddit style section on their site called Huffit. 

Basically, the Huffington Post is automatically ingesting RSS feeds from pre-identified blogs (including themselves) and then giving registered users the ability to vote on their favorite stories. ...

John McCain to Make Online Reality Show as Part of His Campaign

The Los Angeles Times has a great piece today about the explostion of online video in politics.  The articles looks both at how both campaigns and activists groups are using viral video to try to impact the 2008 Presidential election. 

The whole piece is worth reading, but I found this tidbit about the McCain campaign particularly interesting:

McCain is planning his own Web version of reality TV....

Link Roundup (1/28/2006)

• Presidential 2008 Site Analysis
  EchoDitto breaks down the features of the 2008 Presidential sites.  Similar to our own post a few days back and our 2006 study. (Via Personal Democracy).
• 2008: Who's Ahead Online (Rs)
  Micah Sifry from PDF breaks down the web efforts so far of the Republican candidates for President. 
...

Hillary Clinton Posts Question to Yahoo! Answers

Following in the footsteps of the likes of Bono and as part of her "conversational" Presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton posted a question to Yahoo! Answers two days ago.  I'm not a big fan of Yahoo! Answers, but this seems like a pretty good idea. 

Here's her question: "Based on your own family's experience,...