We've wondered why liberal bloggers are more prominent and influential than their conservative counterparts here in the United States before, and I got an interesting insight into the nuanced answer last week.
Last Thursday afternoon, I attended a conservative blogger event hosted by The Washington Times. The paper wanted to gather conservative bloggers to determine why liberals fare better and how conservatives can react....
Continue ReadingThe Bivings Group was recently interviewed by NPR’s All Things Considered for a piece about the online success of Republican/Libertarian Presidential candidate Ron Paul. Micah Sifry from the Personal Democracy Forum was also interviewed.
You can listen to the piece here.
In the interview, Robert Smith asked me if I thought all of the Paul-related activity would have a real impact on the election....
Continue ReadingCorporations, media organizations and even political campaigns are launching online communities left and right seeminly. Many of them are doing so without having any real knowledge of what makes a good online community go or how to manage the community if it flourishes.
Matthew Haughey from the massively successful community site Metafilter has a good post up providing some tips....
Continue ReadingI’ve been telling anyone that would listen that someone should comb through the FEC reports and figure out how much Presidential campaigns paid their web vendors during the first quarter. I did this because I wanted to know and was too lazy to do it myself.
Shira Toeplitz from Hotline dove in and wrote the story....
Continue ReadingIsn't it annoying when a "digger" on digg digs a web page and uses a horrible headline? Well, I've found out how you can counter that by submitting the same URL with a small hack to get the same page on the site with a better headline. I did this while trying to chime in on the digg fray around Republican 2008 US Presidential hopeful Ron Paul....
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