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 ReadingWell I'm here at Pace University in NYC for the Personal Democracy Forum. Larry Lessig just started things off with an interesting talk on copyright and the presidential campaign.
The gist of his speech: copyright absolutely has its place; that place isn't necessarily online or in the presidential campaigns....
Continue ReadingA lot has changed in the newspaper industry since we published our study of newspaper websites last summer. In order to get a better picture of the changing landscape in the world of online news, we are going to publish a sequel to last year's study. In our preparation for the research,...
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....
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