A little more than a month ago, Todd devoted a post to Blogswana, a project centered on blogging for AIDS Education. The project centers around a university student blogging on behalf of a person afflicted with HIV or AIDS and telling their stories to the Internet audience. It’s a good and necessary project and one that I think will touch the lives of so many people....
Continue ReadingWe recently completed a study that assesses the utilization of the Internet as a tool for 2006 political campaigns. The study, a follow-up of the 2002 version, examined how 2006 senatorial candidates used the Web to publicize information about their campaign platforms, personal backgrounds, and volunteer opportunities. We looked at a number of Web campaign tools and made comparisons based on party affiliations,...
Continue ReadingAfter finishing our study of campaign websites, we took the time to check out the Senate candidates’ blogs. Here is a review of some of the best and worst campaign blogs for 2006.
Rick Santorum’s (R-PA) blog, “Running with Rick”, was the most complete of the three incumbent blogs we found,...
Continue ReadingFolks who read papers like the Washington Post online are familar with the Who’s Blogging feature powered by the blog search engine Technorati. Basically, Who’s Blogging allows you to view a list of blog entries linking to the Post story you are reading. You can see an example of this in action on pretty much any Post story....
Continue ReadingI’m a big fan of Firefox. At first my infatuation was all about the tabbed browsing and increased security, but at this point the biggest draw for me is the extensions. Internet Explorer users don’t really get the whole extension thing, so I figured I’d list out some of the more useful ones I have installed to show what the fuss is about....
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