WashPost Creates Supreme Court Blog

Reuters.com: “The Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events … Some 350,000 people have contributed to the grassroots publishing phenomenon, which lets any Web user contribute terms, background…

The Center for Media Research said in their email briefing today that there’s evidence that more young people are interested in Social Security in the wake of the ongoing debate over how to strengthen the system for the future.  CMR wrote: President Bush’s campaign for social security reform has moved the debate to center stage….

Thanks to Matt Cronin of WebLiquid for passing along an article (free registration) from Online MediaDaily. WHILE SEARCH MARKETING IS RESPONSIBLE for much of the resurgence of online advertising, politicians have been relatively slow to purchase sponsored search links. But activity on Google this week indicates that search engines might play a more significant role…

No more fun in the Valley a view from across the pond on Mike Arrington’s musing about leaving Silicon Valley to escape the current craziness (tags: siliconvalley bubble) Monster, Community Newspaper Holdings forge alliance on recruitment local newspapers team up with Monster for job hunting (tags: newspapers classifieds advertising) From Internet Portals to Social Networks…

Matthew Hurst of BlogPulse offers some interesting insight into blog posts over on his Data Mining blog.  It comes in 3 parts:  here, here, and here. He derives the data from 24 hours of pings to weblogs.com.

WashingtonPost.com offers a commentary on the ongoing Politics Online Conference at George Washington University.  It notes that one of the speakers this year came from JibJab, the outfit that created the widely viewed online parody titled "This Land." (If you haven’t seen it, you must not have had an Internet connection last fall.) The piece…