Politics Online Conference Summary

The New Communications Forum was a tremendous conference.  It may rival DEMO for me as one of the best of the year simply because of the high concentration of smart people.  And, oh yeah, the speakers and panels weren’t bad either.  As always, some were better than others, but a very solid lineup overall. The…

We’re going through a bit of a growth spurt over at CustomScoop and have a number of immediate job openings in our Concord, NH office.  It’s an exciting time for the company with lots of fun projects on the horizon.  Our five years of success in selling news monitoring services to medium to large businesses…

Duncan Riley shares a statistic that he came across that should serve as a reminder to those of us living inside the technology bubble: just 5 million Americans use mobile Internet services. Technorati tags: mobile Internet

I admit I never even think about AOL as a player in online news search.  But I guess I should.  MarketingVox reports: AOL News has sprinted into a leading position in online news search, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net, writes SearchEngineWatch, citing July Nielsen/NetRatings data, according to which AOL News has a unique…

I took most of the day off yesterday to spend time with my family – and was I surprised to see my inbox when I got back to it! As a fellow blogger, I understand the importance of a fast, accurate response to issues raised in the blogs. Unfortunately, in a case of the cobbler’s…

Kate Kaye blogs about a new Pew study on blog influence: Bloggers are often touted as influential instigators, feeding buzz-worthy topics to the mainstream media they so disdain, and even guiding discussion in other communication channels. Not so, says a new study analyzing the impact of political blogs on the national conversation leading up to…