FEC to go Easy on Internet

It turns out that relying on the masses to help you pick your NCAA bracket can work.  As I explained before, I made my picks for March Madness this year based on what the majority of CBS Sportsline users had done.  Since I generally stink at this stuff, I figured I had nothing to lose….

Forbes: “Every era has its prized commodity, cherished for its value and utility–gold in the 1850s, oil in the 1870s, water out West in the 1940s. Ours is data … we present the Masters of Information–those entrepreneurs and companies figuring out how to separate the gold from the gravel on the Web.” [via PaidContent.org]

We have taken a few steps forward with CustomScoop Personal Edition today.  First, we introduced a mashup with Google Maps that shows pushpins for every location in which you have a clip.  It easily allows you to see any geographic patterns to your recent news coverage. Currently, we have geocoded most newspapers and certain other…

This blog has joined the TechJots blog network, which right now also includes TechJots and NH TechJots.  InterAdvocacy will continue to follow the business of content and public affairs online, while TechJots follows high-tech entrepreneurship and angel investing.  NH TechJots has a specific focus on the high-tech community in the Granite State. Soon you will…

Scoble: I was over at Alex Barnett’s blog this morning and saw he linked to a survey that said that 87% of influencers use RSS. This is PRECISELY why I’ve been telling everyone to get RSS feeds and why they should be full text. If no one else in society uses them, this is enough…

Henry Copeland of BlogAds, an advertising network for blogs, spoke to the current state of the market for ad spending in the blogosphere: After dropping 40-50% for the first couple of months after the election, it looks like we’ll be at new highs in March and April. I won’t call it a tipping point, because…