Online Ads About to Take Off?

In one of those odd twists of automated ad placement, I saw an ad for Dell product coupons (from a third party site, not Dell itself) in the RSS feed for Jeff Jarvis’ blog tonight.  Those familiar with his "Dell Hell" experience will understand the overwhelming irony.

Steve Rubel launched an interesting discussion on whether RSS growth has stalled.  As I see it, the problem is that RSS is difficult to explain in laymen’s terms and it is saddled with an ugly acronym.  To this day, people cringe at the term HTML, but they have no problem accessing a web site. For…

The Washington Post reports that new rules on internet campaigning are likely. "We are almost certainly going to move from an environment in which the Internet was per se not regulated to where it is going to be regulated in some part," said FEC Commissioner David M. Mason, a Republican. "That shift has huge significance…

Jennifer Leggio is auctioning off the services of five social media experts on eBay to help support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It’s not exactly a new approach to fundraising for charity, but it does break a bit of new ground in that it is the first time I can recall social media experts being…

Fred Wilson mentions on his blog that plenty of people are telling him that radio is dead.  He has some interesting data from JD Power on what consumers think about satellite and HD radio in their cars. My own view?  Satellite threatens FM much more than AM.  Those who still listen to AM often do…

An action packed day today at the WOMBAT conference.  The highlight was probably the keynote by Naked Conversations authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.  This wasn’t your usual high-tech group, so there were quite a few who knew of neither and by show of hands a majority seemed to not know that Scoble had decided…