A Plea for Voluntary Registration on News Sites

Interesting commentary over at Personal Democracy Forum over the merits of advertising on blogs vs. WashingtonPost.com.  Henry Copeland of BlogAds suggested in a debate at the Online Politics conference earlier this month that you’d hit more eyeballs with a buy on political blogs than on the Post web site. Kate Kaye astutely points out that…

MediaPost: A University of Missouri J-School experiment with a "citizen journalism" site found Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered ad nauseum by the city’s other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news

Robert Scoble thinks so.  He argues that Bloglines beats out Technorati because it has more links.  Now, Bloglines may indeed be better than Technorati — I simply haven’t examined it carefully enough to comment.  But you can’t focus solely on quantity at the expense of quality.  All the links in the world don’t matter if…

Saw this over on CC Chapman’s blog. Had to tally up my own list. Basically, it’s a list someone put together about 100 foods everyone should try in their lifetime. So far I have tried 73 of them (those in bold). 1. Venison 2. Nettle tea 3. Huevos rancheros 4. Steak tartare 5. Crocodile 6….

MarketingVOX: Time Warner Cable is offering an interactive TV element to subscribers in the NYC market, Mediaweek reports (via MediaBuyerPlanner). During the Democratic mayoral primary today, viewers of Time Warner Cable’s NY1 News network can participate in a "snap poll" by using specially marked keys on their digital remotes, and will be tracked and reported…

PaidContent: “American Public Media Group (APMG), parent company to Minnesota Public Radio, has invested almost $1 million in the for-profit, Boston-based Gather.com. The new venture is a social networking website devoted to creating an online community of public-radio listeners.”