The Onion Drops Paid Subscriptions

The two regular readers of this blog may wonder where I’ve been the past month since I managed only one post in December.  Long story short, I was buried with tasks both at work and at home.  For some nutty reason, I decided to move my house and my office the week between Christmas and…

For all of those who have heard about this cool new Web 2.0 technology called AJAX but have no idea what it is or what it means for the average user, the CNET did a decent write-up. 

Here is a tantalizing tidbit about a new blog analytics tool called Measure Map.  It isn’t live yet, but you can sign up for an invitation.

Fred Wilson offers some interesting data from Comscore about which blog hosts have the most visitors and which are most sticky.

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,…

I attended the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s WOMBAT conference today in San Francisco.  Day 1 had a number of good panels, including one which covered some research about how people respond to word of mouth recommendations and whether online opinion matters.  Interestingly, the research suggested that about 90% of word of mouth recommendations come…