FEC Hears Bloggers’ Bid to Share Media Exemption

Townhall.com has announced they are ditching MeetUp.com and building their own service.  As one of the largest conservative grassroots groups working with MeetUp, it is a major tangible sign the new billing policy may not be working. Effective this Thursday, Townhall.com will officially end its relationship with Meetup.com.  In place of Meetup, Townhall will begin…

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…

Seth Godin is usually known for his marketing advice.  But that’s fundamentally what politics ends up being all about anyway, isn’t it?  In assessing a debate between David Keene and Ralph Neas over judicial nominations, he determines that Keene was believeable and on message, while Neas sounded "like a Moot Court debater."  (For you lawyers…

PodBlaze offers a white paper on the business impact of podcasting.  It was airplane reading for me recently and it does have a number of interesting nuggets, as well as some data on forecasted growth.  At times it is a little awkward to read and it veers between a business and a technical perspective —…

This space has been fairly quiet of late, as I have been deeply involved in growing and transitioning a number of businesses, ventures, and projects. I thought I’d take a moment to update all of you loyal readers about what I’m up to and in a subsequent post I will share what you can expect…

Forbes has a good article on how companies are trying to make money from podcasting. [via Dave Winer]