Politics Online Conference Summary

Bacon’s acquisition trend continues, this time by picking up broadcast monitoring firm Multivision.  From the press release: Bacon’s Information, Inc., a provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services for public relations, marketing and corporate communications professionals, today announced the acquisition of Multivision, Inc, a broadcast monitoring and media management company headquartered in Oakland,…

Steve Rubel reports that BuzzMetrics and Intelliseek have been acquired by Nielsen.  This represents an interesting marriage between the old school media measurement (Nielsen) and the new world of blog measurement.  Previously, Nielsen has gotten into the web site measurement game generally. As companies begin to pay more attention to what is being said in…

I have decided to coin a new phrase today.  "Blackberry brevity."  I have realized that when I type emails on my Blackberry-esque device (it is actually a Palm Treo 700w), I often abbreviate — not only words, but I curb the length of my message to avoid having to do more thumb typing than absolutely…

The good news: 36 million Americans use text messaging.  The understandable caveat: most are 18-27. Shel Holtz discusses implications for the PR industry broadly, but does text messaging have a future in politics?  Could it be a way to engage younger voters with issue alerts?  Or is it an Inside-the-Beltway pro tool that might work…

MediaPost Publications – New Search Engine Will Give Users Premium Content, For Free Congoo’s business model questioned (tags: PaidContent VerticalSearch Search)

An intriguing new service is available to allow users of Salesforce.com to get account updates via RSS feeds.  [via Scoble] UPDATE: This only works with Enterprise Edition accounts.