I got the following email from Frank Chi, a college senior and the communications director for a new organization called Students for Barack Obama.
“Hi Todd, my name is Frank Chi and I am a college senior and communications director for a newly formed national grassroots campaign, Students for Barack Obama,...
Continue ReadingThe 2006 cycle is in the rearview mirror and the 2008 Presidential campaign is already ramping up. Given that, I figured I’d take a quick look at the contenders and speculate as to how aggressively they will use the Internet in their campaigns. We’ll start with the Democrats (I’m working from this list)....
Continue ReadingThe New York Times reports today on a new study from the University of Chicago on the political bias of newspapers. The study found that newspapers are indeed politically biased, but that the slant reflects the feelings of the paper’s subscriber base. Here’s the key quote from the Times’ piece:
The authors calculated the ideal partisan slant for each paper,...
Continue ReadingBack in August, the Washington Post announced a Blogroll Program. Basically, the Post is encouraging bloggers to submit their sites to the new Blogroll Program. The Post will weed through all the submitted blogs and choose the best of the best.
The blogs that are chosen will then be included on a rotating basis on the Post homepage and in their blog directory....
Continue ReadingToday Steve Rubel unveils Edelman’s take on the social news release, Storycrafter (note lots and lots of others are doing similar work). I like it. I’d rather get something like this than an old fashioned press release. But two quick thoughts:
(1) Regardless of the format, the key with press releases IMO is to produce very few of them....
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