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Washington Post Local Explorer

Today Cyberjournalist points to a feature on the Washington Post website called Local Explorer. Cyberjournalist summarizes:

You can map information on recent area home sales, crime incidents, schools, fire and police stations, restaurants, bars, hospitals, movie theaters and more. Local Explorer also has facts and figures,...

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What if Academia met Social Networking?

A few weeks ago, Gary asked me to obtain some "academic" literature on new PR tactics.  I was able to find some interesting articles through my university library that were both relevant and informative.

While these articles were helpful, Gary was disheartened to realize that he couldn't really do anything with them. ...

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Super-sized Big Mac Index: A Proposal For Project Red Stripe

I have an idea for The Economist Group, which has assigned six staffers from various divisions to develop an innovative web based product for the company that can pull content from any of its properties.  They're blogging about their progress on the Project Red Stripe blog and soliciting ideas from the outside world. ...

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Five Technologies that Will Impact the 2008 Elections

Patrick Ruffini has a good post about an online poll he came across that asked what technology would have the biggest impact on the 2008 election cycle.  YouTube is winning the poll in a landslide.  Ruffini writes:

That’s a “fighting the last war” mentality. Ask the pundits to predict what will work in the next election cycle and they’ll repeat what worked in the last one....

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Some Nifty Web Apps

We've been a bit preoccupied here at TBG with the emergence of a new crop political websites.  Taking a break from politics,  here's a quick roundup of some nifty little Web apps that I found recently. 

Visual Page Rank

  • Ever wonder what links get the most traffic on your webpage or blog? 
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