The Online Ad War Begins

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…

Steve Rubel reports that BuzzMetrics and Intelliseek have been acquired by Nielsen.  This represents an interesting marriage between the old school media measurement (Nielsen) and the new world of blog measurement.  Previously, Nielsen has gotten into the web site measurement game generally. As companies begin to pay more attention to what is being said in…

My Internet radio show, Disruptive Dialogue, is coming back.  It has been on hiatus since the last episode was recorded and released on July 4.  I had put it on the shelf because of time constraints and because, although I was getting positive feedback on it, I didn’t feel it had really found the right…

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.

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MarketingVox: Advertisers will flock to TiVo as it gains more subscribers, said TiVO CEO Tom Rogers during the company’s Q2 earnings conference call, writes Adweek (via MediaBuyerPlanner) … TiVo has introduced an ad-tagging feature that allows sponsors to embed an interactive tag into their commercials, allowing viewers to interact with their spots. Ameriquest, E*Trade and…