FEC Hears Bloggers’ Bid to Share Media Exemption

The New York Daily News reports: Television will have to wait: Mayor Bloomberg is launching a $100,000, five-week Internet advertising blitz aimed at recruiting tens of thousand of volunteers, the Daily News has learned … The campaign currently has 6,000 volunteers, and it’s aiming to recruit a record 50,000. (Thanks to Kari Chisholm at Politics…

Bottom line: things went as well as could be expected this week. Now bring on 2009!

A study by the Economic and Social Research Council found that Britons are slow to adopt the Internet as a means for communicating with MPs.  But politicians and advocacy groups on this side of the Atlantic would be wise to listen to the conclusion of the study’s leader, Stephen Ward of the Oxford Internet Institute,…

CustomScoop is currently testing a free online clipping service covering news, blogs and more.  It is based on the same technology that powers the paid CustomScoop service.  This new product, called Personal Edition, offers similar functionality without all the bells and whistles that the subscription product has.  It has also been designed to take advantage…

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