The Funny (Web) Pages

What is a web comic? Its like a regular comic, except it’s hosted online and generally does not follow a strict release schedule. They also differ in that they tend to be larger than regular comics taking up 3, 6, or 9 comic panels. The art is usually hand drawn and scanned,...

Website as a Graph (and Art)

Was on the site of Edward Tufte, the author of the stunning series of books about data and its visualization — The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is the first in the series — looking up info about his new book, Beautiful Evidence. Was especially intriqued by his notion of Sparklines....

Campaign Study on PBS MediaShift

Our study on Internet usage by 2006 U.S. Senate campaigns got a nice write up on the excellent PBS MediaShift blog today. The article focuses on the use of tools like blogs and podcasts by the campaigns. It’s a good read.

For those of you interested, here’s a listing of our series of posts the last few months on this topic:

• The Internet’s Role in Political Campaigns
• Best 2006 Campaign Websites
• 2006 Campaign Blog Review
• 2006 Senate Blog Review…The Sequel
• Politicians Who Podcast
• Most “Web 2.0”
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Google Tries to Mobilize Support for Net Neutrality

Damien pointed me to Google’s advocacy page on the net neutrality issue. The page is very “Google”. They quickly state their position and link to external sites where users can take action. Not a lot of fuss and pretty much no wasted movement or effort.

More interesting is the excellent Save the Internet website that Google directs people to....

Most “Web 2.0” Politicians

In response to my post on politicians that podcast, a member of Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) staff left a comment pointing me to a blog entry on their site about new media tactics used by Republican House members. It sort of got me thinking: which politicians are most embracing Web 2.0?...