Former VP candidate John Edwards will launch a podcast next week, likely being the first national politician to do so. For the technically challenged readers of InterAdvocacy, check out this definition of podcasting. (Thanks to the BuzzWebster blog for bringing this to my attention.)
MediaPost: A University of Missouri J-School experiment with a "citizen journalism" site found Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered ad nauseum by the city’s other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news
Or at least that’s how it seems when you read the wild rumors about Google attempting to buy Reuters.
MediaPost reports: DELL COMPUTERS, INC., WHICH CAME under fire this summer from blogger Jeff Jarvis, says it has new procedures for dealing with the blogosphere. The company’s public relations department monitors blogs, looking for commentaries and complaints–and, starting about a month ago, began forwarding complaints with personally identifiable information to the customer service department so…
Jason Kottke makes a strong case that Technorati is heading in the wrong direction. That’s it. I’ve had it. No more Technorati. I’ve used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that…
I’m torn about how to deal with Donald Trump. Part of me says that this is the same guy who demonstrated a clear lack of respect for many Americans, engaged in disgusting personal behavior, and expressed views that would present a clear and present danger to the United States if they were actually to become…
Sometimes it’s a good idea to eat one’s own dog food. Or so they say. I often complain that folks overlook the power of email as an effective tool for communications and idea-sharing. Sure, blogs are great. RSS feeds are useful. And automated emails alerting to new blog posts are simple enough to set up….