Politics Online Conference Summary

The High Price of Creating Free Ads the pitfalls of inviting consumers to create ads for your brand (tags: advertising ugc) coRank: Build Your Own Digg Clone could a more focused Digg challenge the “original”? (tags: socialmedia ugc) Who Can Compete with Facebook? which matters more? platform or user base? (tags: innovation) Don’t Adjust My…

ClickZ: PubSub has begun an effort to compile lists of influential Weblogs by category, which could be of use to media buyers and planners eager to buy advertising in blogs.

Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world.  It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations.  For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…

The Standards Editor of the New York Times,  Allan M. Siegal, made an interesting admission in an interview with his own publication today: I’m supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how we’re doing and what we’re doing, the person who adjudicates differences of opinion about how we…

Curt Monash writes: “Perhaps the coolest of the applications Information Builders cited for me is by the NYC Department of Health.  This site provides a small amount of restaurant health information to tens of thousands of users per day.  As a former long-time Manhattanite, I can confirm that there’s a great need for this application. IBI…

Steve Rubel launched an interesting discussion on whether RSS growth has stalled.  As I see it, the problem is that RSS is difficult to explain in laymen’s terms and it is saddled with an ugly acronym.  To this day, people cringe at the term HTML, but they have no problem accessing a web site. For…