Classroom Blogging: More than Just Tech Ed

With some of the projects we've got going on here at TBG, I've been thinking a lot about who should blog and how certain parties should open their blog to comments. When a friend of mine approached me asking for help setting up a classroom blog for a summer class he will be teaching,...

The Washington Post is Going Social

Fritz is one the Washington Post's hipsters who is tracking the social scene here in Washington, D.C.  In the Going Out Gurus blog, he reports the closure of the lounge at the Hotel Helix, which has amassed a following since its opening in 2002.  Sigh.  However, according to The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the paper will attempt to fill the gap created in the area's social scene by giving Washingtonians another place to meet up: ...

Most Popular Newspaper Websites

This weekend, Editor and Publisher released some data on the most popular newspaper websites. Not surprisingly, the New York Times was at the top of the list with 12,960,000 unique visitors in February 2007. USATODAY.com, washingtonpost.com, LATimes.com, and the Wall Street Journal Online rounded out the top five.

You can see the entire list of newspaper statistics here....

6 Ways to Market on Facebook

Marketing on social networks is not always that successful as Todd has pointed out, but there are sly ways to garner some success. Facebook has an interesting feature — the news feed. Depending upon members' privacy settings, it will chronicle their activities and broadcast them to their friends.

While some Facebook denizens loathe this feature,...

Matt Stoller: Where are Republicans.com?

Matt Stoller of MyDD has an interesting post today that looks at why the Republicans appear to be falling behind Democrats in their use of the Internet. Here is how he closes the piece:

I’ve been digging into this question, of why the left is winning online, for years now....