Wii Injury Report

By now, we've all heard the unfortunate tales of injury and destruction that have come as a result of playing the Nintendo Wii. If you haven't, I suggest visiting Wii Have a Problem, a blog dedicated to reporting wacky Wii-related stories. The site has video footage of broken screens, ranging from laptop monitors to 40 inch LCDs;...

In-Text Ads – Ensuring Contextual Appropriateness

The Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled, “Is It News…or Is It an Ad? ” yesterday about the appearance of in-text ads on major news sites.  In-text ads appear as an underlined key word or phrase within an actual article.  If a user mouses-over it, an advertisement related to that phrase appears as a layer above the content,...

Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project Revamps its Online Program

On Friday, our pro-bono client the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (MAIP) launched a redesigned and revamped version of its website, www.exonerate.org.  MAIP is a member of a network of non-profits around the country that works to provide legal services for people wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.  The Project uses DNA evidence to exonerate and clear the names of people that are victims of shortcomings of the US judicial system. ...

Facebook Meets the Widget

While doing some new research today, I discovered a few websites with some interesting features.

Sports Illustrated’s website has a function that I’ve recently seen popping up on the Web on rare news sites, such as the Washington Post. In the set of tools provided for each article,...

New Additions to Candidate Blogroll

After revisiting some of our data from the political campaign study we conducted earlier this summer, I realized that many candidates have added blogs to their websites since our original research. Here is a list of all of the Senate candidate blogs (the italicized blogs did not appear in our original research)....