People Pay for Ring Tones
An interesting statistic from the 9/5/05 issue of Red Herring magazine: 30 million Americans have downloaded cell phone ring tones and 78 percent of them (23 million people) paid for them.
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The Washington Post today covers the latest discussion about how to regulate political bloggers (if at all). It seems that everyone is in agreement that most should not be subject to FEC regulation, but there remains one sticky area yet to address: bloggers paid by campaigns. Most are familiar with the "paid for by …"…
Old time clipping service meets new media stats: BurrellesLuce, the nation’s leading media monitoring company, today announced that it will include Nielsen//NetRatings global Internet audience reach figures on all press clippings retrieved from Internet sources.
MoveOn.org continues to generate press for itself over its ability to bundle contributions to targeted campaigns. The latest example comes courtesy of the Charleston (WV) Gazette: Early Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sent an appeal over the Internet urging people to contribute to the re-election campaign of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. In less…
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Over at one of my other blogs, TechJots, I note that the reported exit of Robert Scoble from Microsoft creates some opportunities. I thought readers of this blog might find it interesting as well.