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Text Messaging Opportunities
The good news: 36 million Americans use text messaging. The understandable caveat: most are 18-27. Shel Holtz discusses implications for the PR industry broadly, but does text messaging have a future in politics? Could it be a way to engage younger voters with issue alerts? Or is it an Inside-the-Beltway pro tool that might work…
links for 2007-05-30
Have the people at ESPN.com have lost their minds or am I missing something here?!?!? Apparently Jason Calacanis and I both missed the story a while back that ESPN.com was refusing to stream video to customers of certain ISP’s that would not pay them (tags: onlinevideo) Social Information Overload in many respects, social network overload…
Grassroots Use of Technology Conference
MIT will host a grassroots technology conference in 2 weeks. It certainly tilts left, but online organizing ideas ultimately ignore the political spectrum. The workshop is described as follows: Workshop proposals that were accepted fit into one of these themes: a) Making technology relevant to communities b) Online politics post-2004 c) Uniting movements for social…
British Politics Slow to Gain from Net
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,…
Moreover to be Acquired?
If true, this news from SiliconValleyWatcher.com would certainly be an interesting development in the area of online news aggregation. Silicon Valley Watcher has learned that Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco-based news aggregator, will announce within the next few days that it has been acquired by a much larger multi-national company. The announcement is expected by…