New Blog Analysis Tool Coming Soon?

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…

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…

PaidContent.org reports: C-SPAN is launching its podcasts with three popular shows: After Words, Q & A and segments from American Perspectives.

BL Ochman has gone on the warpath against the BlogOn conference and its PR firm, Porter Novelli.  First, she was irked that Porter Novelli’s rep refused to grant her a press pass to cover the event.  Then she seemed insulted when BlogOn’s marketing rep suggested a trade in which BL would agree to promote the…

Today’s recommended reading is a bit all over the map. There’s something here to please communicators, entrepreneurs, consumers, and probably a half dozen other demographics. Don’t get too used to it, though, because I’m just as likely to get hung up on a single topic tomorrow.

Scoble points to some new, niche versions of Memeorandum that have been created.  Specifically, he spoke with Gabe Rivera, creator of Memeorandum, who told him about tech.Memeorandum and the latest version of the original which is focused on current events and politics. It’s all computer driven to come up with stories — it uses links…