Politicians, Advocacy Groups and Social News Sites

We’ve written often here about social news sites like Digg, Reddit and Netscape that give users control of what appears on the sites’ homepage through voting.  Until a few months ago, these sites were really geared towards techies, so they were largely ignored by politicians and advocacy groups. 

Now that these social news sites have built an audience and expanded their focus beyond technology news, ...

Reviewing the Flash Players of Major Video Sites

Update: The folks at Blip Tv contacted me and corrected my statement that YouTube was the first company to allow bloggers to imbed third party video content on their own sites. Blip TV launched that feature one month before YouTube. My original post follows.

As far as I know,...

The Great Debate: Netflix vs. Blockbuster

Love watching movies? With in store movie rentals at Blockbuster and other similar stores costing about 5 bucks a pop, if you’re an avid movie watcher, participating in a movie-by-mail service is definitely a wise choice. Blockbuster and Netflix have two extremely popular movie-by-mail programs, both of which are a great deal....

Just How Many Chinese Bloggers Are There?

Like many others, I read this brief article on CNN.com entitled, "China bloggers surpass 30 million."  The articles says there's about 34 million blog sites, but the more important number is the number of actual bloggers — more than 17 million according to the article.  That's a few folks, but not all that many if you consider that more than 105 million persons in China have access to the web —...

Consumer Reports Introduces Safety Blog

While browsing Consumerist the other day for updates on the Krempasky vs. Popken debate, I noticed that one of the posts reported that Consumer Reports has introduced a Consumer Safety Blog. I'm a big fan of consumer advocacy and think it's a great idea. However, I can't say I'm taken with the site right away....