What do bloggers mean to politics?

Blogs may be going mainstream — CNN has officially added a daily 4 minute blog segment to its "Inside Politics" show, according to USA Today highlighted by Steve Rubel.  At some point blogs may no longer be the mavericks that they once were.  How will this affect their impact?  Bloggers today proud themselves on being…

Well-known PR measurement expert Katie Paine is blogging about the International Public Relations Research Conference going on in Miami.  She has an intriguing observation which hopefully she’ll elaborate on when she’s not running between sessions: Howard Dean and the DNC would be adviced to carefully study Len Barshak’s ongoing Q-Sort study of attititudes about the…

AdAge reports on that the Washington Post has become an early adopter of RSS ads.  I’ve seen them in the feeds I subscribe to from the Post and they are done well — easily seen but not obnoxious.

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Reuters.com: “The Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events … Some 350,000 people have contributed to the grassroots publishing phenomenon, which lets any Web user contribute terms, background…

I tried.  I really, really wanted to go back to Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Overall, I prefer that browser to Firefox, mostly because the extensions they have and that many web sites take advantage of.  But I couldn’t do it.  The MSN search toolbar had me feeling good for a while because it enables tabbed browsing. …