New Blog Analysis Tool Coming Soon?

Three weeks ago, Kari Chisholm had an interesting post about how to build an email list.  (I’m getting caught up on posting interesting reads today, in case you didn’t notice the flurry of posts.)

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…

I spent far too much time in airports the past few days, enduring the joy of late summer thunderstorms in the northeast.  On the upside, I was able to knock out two books that I would recommend you pick up when you have a chance. John Battelle’s The Search offers a superb look at the…

PRSA New York’s MegaTech Day went well.  The first panel included BL Ochman, Steve Rubel, Steve Lubetkin, and  Emiliano DeLaurentis.  They discussed blogging, podcasting, RSS, and more.  This and the concluding panel with 7 technology journalists from Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, the New York Times, and others seemed to be the most popular with attendees. …

This news is a month old, but it has been sitting in my "to post" file and since I’ve done a lot with success and failure in paid subscriptions lately, here’s a success story from MediaPost: THE NEWLY FORMED INTERNET DIVISION of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. acquired Scout Media Inc., a Seattle-based online sports company…

Steve Rubel labels the latest activity of "swarms of citizen journalists … mobilizing to settle scores" as "vigilante journalism."  It’s an apt name for the phenomenon and it will be interesting to see how the debate moves on this. Frankly, I’m torn.  Bloggers certainly have the write to "kvetch" (as BL Ochman woud say), but…