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The first ever dead tree version of Media Bullseye, the multimedia magazine I founded last December, is now available. I’m a big believer that there’s still a role for print publications to play. Not everyone takes time to read articles online and this enables us to get in front of interesting people who prefer to…

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…

SiliconBeat: Digg gets $2.8 Mil Funding another “public as the news editor” site (tags: Aggregation VC) e-fluentials – Advocacy Drives Growth “finding a link between word of mouth recommendations and sales performance” (tags: WordOfMouth MarketResearch) LookSmart Expands Vertical Search 131 new verticals added (tags: VerticalSearch)

How Marketers Want To Trick Mobile Operators Into Letting Them Spam You (tags: MobileContent Spam) The Political Power Of Blogs (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Motorola To Launch Idle-Screen Pointcast-like Service in U.S. (tags: MobileContent) OPML – An Awesome Experiment (tags: OPML NewProducts RSS Web2.0) MediaPost Publications – Blog Champions: High Click-Throughs Offset Low Reach – 09/29/2005…

Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world.  It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations.  For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…

Or at least that’s how it seems when you read the wild rumors about Google attempting to buy Reuters.