What do bloggers mean to politics?

Blog valuation: The current numbers if you’re buying/selling a site (tags: Blogs M MarketResearch) PR folks see blogs as powerful and dangerous (tags: PR Blogs) Online News Squared: Americans On Net 93 Minutes Daily — 7X Newspapers (tags: OnlineMedia MarketResearch) “Define What’s Valued Online” Highlights Critical Role of Internet in Shaping Purchasing Decisions Survey of…

Jeff Jarvis fosters an interesting discussion about what Roger Ailes’ new role in charge of local fox stations means.  As the man who spawned Fox News Channel, he clearly has demonstrated success at innovating.  And Jeff thinks he might do the same for local news: What if, instead, a station tore into local issues and…

Google’s IM client (Google Talk) has gotten all the attention today, but it strikes me that the bigger announcement is the way they will start verifying Gmail accounts – through SMS messages to users’ cell phones.  The rationale is that you can fake other ways of verifying a real person is creating an account, but…

Heather Green over at BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting writes: PaidContent and Techdirt dig through the two conflicting surveys from JupiterResearch and CLX on podcasts…and come up with the most logical line on who the audience for podcasts is….No one knows.

Thanks to Matt Cronin of WebLiquid for passing along an article (free registration) from Online MediaDaily. WHILE SEARCH MARKETING IS RESPONSIBLE for much of the resurgence of online advertising, politicians have been relatively slow to purchase sponsored search links. But activity on Google this week indicates that search engines might play a more significant role…

The Hartford Courant takes a look at the current difficulties facing newspapers — and how they are addressing the problem both on and off-line. These are tough times for the printed word. As newspapers grapple with their collective identity crisis, they’re also navigating some stark industry conditions – what some news veterans call the worst…