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AP reports on a new Pew study that shows that: Reliance on the Internet for political news during last year’s presidential campaign grew sixfold from 1996, while the influence of newspapers dropped sharply, according to a study issued Sunday. Full report here.

Seth’s Blog: I’m liveblogging this Seth Godin joins the anti-liveblogging crowd (tags: blogs) TripAdvisor Growing With Help of User Generated Content “TripAdvisor is successfully showing the blue print of how to leverage user generated content, now the only question is the rest of the world watching? And who will be the next business to take…

AdAge reports on that the Washington Post has become an early adopter of RSS ads.  I’ve seen them in the feeds I subscribe to from the Post and they are done well — easily seen but not obnoxious.

cgm: CGM, Blogs, and Politics Much of the innovation we’re seeing in the use and spread of consumer-generated media (CGM) draws from the political blog space. (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Over 100M Blogs Served (tags: Blogs) How To Instantly Get Onto Newsweek’s And The Washington Post’s Website (tags: Blogs PR)

SharedReviews Paid Opinions (tags: ugc) Weekend Poll: Will Google Universal Search Kill Vertical Search Engines? (tags: search VerticalSearch) GoogleBurner – A Bad Day for the Blogosphere? Matthew Hurst shares some of my concerns over the concept of GooBurner (tags: MandA acquisitions metrics) Internet Giants Vie to Snap Up Web Ad Firms (tags: web Advertising MandA…

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,…