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Interesting report from UPI today: White House adviser Karl Rove said in a recent conference call that Internet lobbying by young grassroots Republicans will make or break the Bush administration’s proposals to revamp the pension program, just as the technology helped get out the vote last fall during the presidential campaign.

Steve Rubel points to a Pew statistic that shows 5 percent of users take advantage of RSS feeds.  That’s obviously a number that shows the technology is in its very early stages. The interesting thing to consider here is how RSS might impact politics in a few years.  For example, it could be used as…

This weekend I started playing around with the MSN Search Toolbar that also includes Desktop Search.  The Desktop app is very impressive and certainly handy.  It searches emails, including attachments, as well as documents on your hard drive for any search terms you input. It’s lightning fast and effective.  The search within Outlook feature has…

Amy Gahran looks at legal issues surrounding comments posted on your blog: On Aug. 26, Dave Taylor posted an article concerning legal liability and weblog comments. Basically, Aaron Wall, who writes the SEO Book weblog, was recently threatened with a lawsuit because of something that someone posted in comments to his blog.

MoveOn.org continues to generate press for itself over its ability to bundle contributions to targeted campaigns.  The latest example comes courtesy of the Charleston (WV) Gazette: Early Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sent an appeal over the Internet urging people to contribute to the re-election campaign of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. In less…

Microsoft’s Robert Scoble frequently offers good insight and great links.  But I’m afraid today his wife may be right.  When he blogged today about "the world" I can only hope he intended to say "my world." RSS has totally changed how I work and how I get my information. In that sense, RSS has changed…