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Experimenting with MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog is a tool that allows for social networking around blogs.  Basically, bloggers and blog readers sign up for a MyBlogLog account and upload a picture, claim their blog and create a profile. 

If you run a blog, you can insert the MyBlogLog widget (see right) on your site and you can see a list of your recent visitors. ...

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Techcrunch Finds Obama Site Bug

Want to know why some campaign websites are so restrictive, often taking days to approve user generated content?  Check out this post on Techcrunch about a very disturbing hiccup Arrington found on the new Obama website.  Yikes.

I've seen lots of hiccups like this in my time.  I remember doing some political work a few years back and a volunteer complained about an auto-generated password we sent him. ...

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This Campaign is About You

Barack Obama will announce his candidacy for President later today and in advance of that he launched a full version of his campaign website very early this morning. 

Here are my initial thoughts:

(1) This site is all about social networking.  I mean all about it. ...

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The Magazine Study Revisited

After our presentation for the Magazine Publishers of America in NYC on Tuesday, we received some requests for additional research.  I spent this morning trying to find some statistical explanations for the performance of the magazine websites by running some regressions, checking for correlation between the presence of Web features and traffic (as measured by Alexa). ...

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Campaign Site Design Review: Hillary for President

Part one of my review of the top presidential campaign sites starts with Hillary Clinton's (exploratory committee) site .

As I've mentioned in a past post, this site impresses me with its lack of fluff and solid design. The red, white and blue palette is toned down for a less giddy experience....

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