The New York Times will begin a paid subscription section starting next Monday, 9/19, that will primarily include columns. Jupiter analyst David Card wonders:
shall we start the countdown for how long this lasts till the Timesmen (and women) demand to be set free so they can continue to participate in the online blogger-commentariat fray?
I’m an early morning person. I generally rise around 5:30 AM. In fact, even on vacation I’m hard-pressed to sleep in beyond 6:30 or 7:00. One of the reasons I like getting up early is that it is quiet. At home, the wife and kids are still asleep. It gives me a chance to knock…
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…
Washington Post reports on the gist of comments to the FEC on internet campaigning regulations. My position will not be popular with fellow bloggers, but I do believe that if a blogger is paid to blog by a campaign, that should have to be disclosed — just like real world political activities. Now, if the…
Google has launched an app called Sidebar that sits on your desktop and monitors news, email, weather and other things. It self customizes based on what you browse. I just installed it to test it out and will let you know what I find. [via TechCrunch]
We have taken a few steps forward with CustomScoop Personal Edition today. First, we introduced a mashup with Google Maps that shows pushpins for every location in which you have a clip. It easily allows you to see any geographic patterns to your recent news coverage. Currently, we have geocoded most newspapers and certain other…
First, conservative bloggers followed Hugh Hewitt’s call to "adopt a box" of documents about Judge Roberts and cull through them for interesting information. And now Mark Tapscott takes his mandate as an advocate for Computer Assisted Research and Reporting to a new level by suggesting "Citizen Assisted Research and Reporting" through an examination of massive…