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Vox Launches

Vox, the hybrid blogging/social networking platform, has left its beta test phase and is now allowing anyone to sign up. I've written about it before and think it is fantastic.  Give it a look.  I really think it is going to catch on with personal bloggers.

Read more about it on the Team Vox blog and on Techcrunch. ...

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Will “Google Bombs” Impact the 2006 Elections?

MSNBC has a story today about the efforts of liberal and conservative bloggers to articially raise the search ranks of negative articles about candidates they oppose. 

The idea is that if I search for "George Allen" on Google, the liberal bloggers want the macaca video to show up high in the results. ...

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The Worst Political Websites

CNET has a great article today detailing the worst political campaign sites on the web. The list mostly focuses mostly on calling out the bizarre elements of sites for obscure House candidates. 

But the piece also points out a personal pet peeve of mine: campaign blogs with zero content.  ...

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Newspaper Website Performance: More than Just the Features

Inspired by our meeting last week with LA Times reporter T. Christian  Miller, I decided to take a closer look at some of our data from the newspaper study we conducted this summer.  I wanted to see how the online versions of newspapers are performing compared to their print circulations.  The findings were interesting and indicate that there are many ...

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Which Senate Candidate has the Most Popular Website?

Erin had a little free time today so we decided to build on our campaign study and do some quick research to see which US Senate candidates had the most popular websites.   Please note that the site rank and reach per million data included in the table below is taken from Alexa.  We included the blog column based on our own research....

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