Did Bush win because of the Internet?
MICHAEL CORNFELD KNOWS WHY George W. Bush won last year’s presidential election. Bush’s camp, said Cornfeld, used the Internet to find volunteers and then gave them information to spread–via any medium at hand–to friends and neighbors. "The Bush campaign married software to Tupperware," Cornfeld, a senior consultant with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, said Monday at OMMA West.
PRSA New York’s MegaTech Day went well. The first panel included BL Ochman, Steve Rubel, Steve Lubetkin, and Emiliano DeLaurentis. They discussed blogging, podcasting, RSS, and more. This and the concluding panel with 7 technology journalists from Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, the New York Times, and others seemed to be the most popular with attendees. …
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Brookings will be offering a talk on "The Impact of the New Media" tomorrow, which will be available via webcast. Old and new media will be on hand to discuss the meaning of blogs and the like.
Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts. They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging. The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…