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I originally posted this on TechJots, but I imagine readers here may be interested as well: I always knew I liked Shel Israel.  Now I know why: he’s a Red Sox fan! Seriously, though, he’s going to be part of a blogger dinner in Boston on July 12 at 7 pm at Fire and Ice…

Townhall.com is spinning off from The Heritage Foundation to become a separate entity and is shedding its 501(c)3 tax status in the process.  This represents a major development as it will no longer be constrained by IRS rules to avoid political activism.  It has the potential to become a powerful conservative grassroots activation tool.  (As…

Charlen Li explores an interesting concept: the third page of search. I’ve been noodling around the idea of the "Third Page" of search (credit goes to Perry Evans from LocalMatters for prompting this train of thought). The first page of search is the query page (like www.google.com), the second page is the search results, and…

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,…

We’re going through a bit of a growth spurt over at CustomScoop and have a number of immediate job openings in our Concord, NH office.  It’s an exciting time for the company with lots of fun projects on the horizon.  Our five years of success in selling news monitoring services to medium to large businesses…

An email from MediaPost reports: “Have we reached critical mass on consumer broadband penetration in the United States? Well, apparently JupiterResearch says we have. Jupiter reports that more than 43 percent of online households now connect to the Web via broadband, thus constituting critical mass. Jupiter projects that broadband adoption will reach nearly 80 percent…