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Food for the Web-Savvy

If you're like me and like to cook and eat good food but can never decide what to make, there are two websites that you should definitely check out.  All Recipes.com and Yahoo! Food are two online communities that bring together Web 2.0 -minded cooks and food lovers.

All Recipes.com is loaded with great features. ...

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Democrats 2008: Online Strategy Preview Part 1

The 2006 cycle is in the rearview mirror and the 2008 Presidential campaign is already ramping up. Given that, I figured I’d take a quick look at the contenders and speculate as to how aggressively they will use the Internet in their campaigns. We’ll start with the Democrats (I’m working from this list)....

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Are Newspapers Politically Biased?

The New York Times reports today on a new study from the University of Chicago on the political bias of newspapers. The study found that newspapers are indeed politically biased, but that the slant reflects the feelings of the paper’s subscriber base. Here’s the key quote from the Times’ piece:

The authors calculated the ideal partisan slant for each paper,...

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Washington Post Launches Blogroll Program Blog

Back in August, the Washington Post announced a Blogroll Program. Basically, the Post is encouraging bloggers to submit their sites to the new Blogroll Program. The Post will weed through all the submitted blogs and choose the best of the best.

The blogs that are chosen will then be included on a rotating basis on the Post homepage and in their blog directory....

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The Social Press Release

Today Steve Rubel unveils Edelman’s take on the social news release, Storycrafter (note lots and lots of others are doing similar work). I like it. I’d rather get something like this than an old fashioned press release. But two quick thoughts:

(1) Regardless of the format, the key with press releases IMO is to produce very few of them....

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