What’s the deal with –dale?

With the news about microchip maker’s price wars, I can’t seem to miss the fact that a number of the new Intel chips are codenamed some very unique names: Conroe, Woodcrest, Montecito, Kentsfield, etc. Am I on a hiking trail or is this a function of the naming montage we see in planned communities?...

Friendster: Armed with Patents

I think I belong to nearly every social network out there now: Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, Orkut and, as of last Wednesday, Facebook. The network I used the most was Friendster, because most of my friends already had profiles on there. No one I know uses Orkut and my colleagues and I are listed on LinkedIn....

New Media and the Florida Gubernatorial Race

Yesterday, the Herald Tribune out of Florida published an article on the use of blogs and podcasts by FL gubernatorial candidates. I was interviewed for the piece and it includes a mention of our study on the use of the Internet by 2006 Senate candidates.

Not being from Florida,...

Best of the Worst

We talk a lot on this blog about the “best of” things….the best of blogs, the best campaign websites, the best uses for Google…but what we rarely talk about is the worst of things.

CNET did a piece last month about the worst tech of the second quarter of 2006....

DoubleClick Integrates Ad Serving Into Flash Sites

According to a recent article in Online Media Daily, DoubleClick has introduced a new ad serving platform that integrates ads directly into Flash-based websites.  The new system enables the ad to interact directly with the content, coordinating the rich media elements of the ads with the rest of the content so that they are not competing with one another for attention....